Fiction. Literature. HTML:�??Take the advice of no one,�?� August Kleinman�??s mother says to him while August is still a young boy in Germany, and with these words to guide him, he escapes Nazi Germany and goes on to build a fortune, a family, and life on his own terms in America. At the defining moments that reveal character and shape fate �?? a shocking encounter with a Japanese soldier in a cave during World War II, the audacious decision to start a brewery in Pittsburgh and a violent reaction against threats to its independent success, a vacation in Barbados, during which his beloved wife mysteriously wanders off, the birth of his grandson �?? August�??s instincts are determinative in a way that illuminates how lives unfold at the deepest levels. This is a brilliant, suspenseful, surprising novel by one of America�??s finest writers. Publisher�??s Weekly called Ethan Canin�??s For Kings and Planets �??Masterful �?� a classic parable of the human condition,�?� and the same can be said abo