In "So Tender Was Suleyken," Siegfried Lenz lovingly and artistically traces his roots. Masuria, this historically rich region in East Prussia, and its people come to life through the author's distinctive voice and his sensitive, panoramic narrative style, making it feel as if one were walking with them or hunting for a runaway rooster or climbing into the crown of an apple tree. A book about memory, about home, about what endures.