The narrator changes to Lev (David's grandfather) and it's New Year's Eve in 1942 in Leningrad, Russia during World War II. He flies to Florida to speak with his grandfather, and for a week David records his grandfather's stories.
David lives in Los Angeles writing screenplays, but when he was asked to write an autobiographical essay, he decided he wanted to write instead about Leningrad, where his grandfather grew up. Eventually the conglomerate agreed and David's grandparents retired to Florida. In the late 1990s, an insurance conglomerate offered to purchase the company, and David's grandmother asked them to double their offer. As a child David lived two blocks away from his grandparents, who owned an insurance company.
He is an American who describes himself as growing up knowing that his grandfather killed two Germans in a knife fight before he was 18, even though he was never actually told the story.
The novel begins with David as the narrator.
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