The Inheritor: A Novel

431 pp. British author, posthumous novel Rising was short-listed for Booker Prize. Originally published in Great Britain as "Image of My Father." Vincent Levesque has grown to adulthood believing himself to be an illegitimate orphan, raised in kindness by adoptive parents in Belgium, and educated well through an anonymous "scholarship". At the end of WWII, having been abandoned by his wife, he discovers the truth about his parentage.