Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0312301561, Hardcover)

In 1991, The New York Times Book Review called Taibo's book, Shadow of a Shadow 'riotous....a wild and mel-ancholy tangle of life.' Now the four dis-parate friends and domino players at its center are back. But as the title says, they come 'returning as shadows,' twenty years older, to combat the Ger-man Fascists stealing into their country at the start of World War II. Readers meet a cast of vivid characters, including a one-armed poet and Ernest Hemingway, the latter magically transported to Mexico while sleeping off a hang-over. All of these are seen through the eyes of a gifted writer sharing with his readers an imagination very much his own.