The novel See Under: Love is written by David Grossman and published in the year 1986. It is a messy and awe-inspiring story of two Holocaust survivor parents and their child Momik. The story has four parts, and it tells how Momik gets information about the history of the Nazi beast and prepares himself for the next Holocaust, which is still to come.
The first phase of the story starts with the birth of Momik from Holocaust survivor parents in the mid-50s in Israel. They usually speak the phrase "Over there," about which Momik is unaware. He doesn't know what it means, and so he thinks he is not a jew because a jew knows what the meaning of "Over there" is. He asks his grandfather about the Nazi beast, and the older man tells enough stories to send him into paroxysms of fear.
The second phase starts when Momik is an adult writer. It is the time of the early 80s in Israel. Momik likes the polish writer Bruno Schulz. He meets him, and Bruno takes Momik to a new world of language. One without the idea of violence, which is the new beginning of Momik's life.
In the third phase, Shlomo Neuman interacts with his protagonist, Anshel Wasserman. Wasserman comes to the concentration camp, and Nazis find him hard to kill. Nazis take him to the camp commandant, Neigel, where he presents a deal to Wasserman. He asks him to tell him a story in Scheherezade-style, of the Children of the Heart, and for each account, Neigel will attempt to kill Wasserman. During the time, Wasserman invents the story about the child name Kazik.
The last phase of the story is the Complete Encyclopedia of Kazik's Life. A child who lived an entire human life in less than 24 hours, whom the Children of the Heart prayed, would "know nothing of war." In last, he commits suicide. In last, Neigel's wife leaves him, and he too commits suicide. Wasserman escapes and saves his life. Through the story, the narrator presents the ideas of war, violence, Nazi beasts, love, language, and memory.
