“…Jorge Berástegui-Wood (2014) explores Alex's identity in connection to a generational trauma and the inherited historical trauma of the Holocaust, which is a collective loss he must also confront. Andrew Furman (2005), Sigrun Meinig (2007), and Magdalena Mączyńska (2009) analyses the Jewishness of the novel, the latter including it within postsecular literature. More recently, Songyun Zheng (2018) has analyses this postsecular view in order to emphasise "the role religion plays in identity formation and narrative construction" (para.…”