Mother Night
An American playwright who stayed on in Berlin becomes the Reich's most effective English-language broadcaster, passing intelligence to the Allies in the pauses between slanders nobody knows he does not believe. Writing his account in an Israeli cell in 1961, he cannot produce anyone still living who can say which of the two men he was. The only one of his books, Vonnegut wrote, whose moral he knew: we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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