The Lacuna is the store of a man´s search for safety in the grinding jaws of two nations, at a moment when the entire world seemed bent on reinventing itself at any cost.  This is a gripping story of identity,  connection with our past, and the power  of words to create or devastate. Like no  other novel yet written, it illuminates an  era when bold internationalism gave way  to a post-war landscape of narrowly  defined ‘Americanism’.