`Beautifully told` John le Carre `More than just history` Michael Palin `Truly exceptional` Jon Snow `Absolutely remarkable` Edmund de Waal In this remarkably moving memoir, Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father`s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. `The darkest shadow is beneath the candle.` As a child in Venezuela, Ariana Neumann is fascinated by the enigma of her father, who appears to be the epitome of success and strength, but who wakes at night screaming in a language she doesn`t recognise. Then, one day, she finds an old identity document bearing his picture - but someone else`s name. From a box of papers her father leaves for her when he dies, Ariana meticulously uncovers the extraordinary truth of his escape from Nazi-occupied Prague. She follows him across Europe and reveals his astonishing choice to assume a fake identity and live out the war undercover, spying for the Allies in Berlin - deep in the `darkest shadow`. Having known nothing of her father`s past, not even that he was Jewish, Ariana`s detective work also leads to the shocking discovery that a total of twenty-five members of the Neumann family were murdered by the Nazis.Spanning nearly ninety years and crossing oceans, When Time Stopped is a powerful and beautifully wrought memoir in which Ariana comes to know the family that has been lost - and, ultimately, her own beloved father.