"Moritz explores his family’s experiences of dislocation in this stellar sociopolitical history and memoir. Moritz's own sense of both mixed and lost identity are woven into a compelling tapestry shot through with old letters and documents, family photos, questions he regrets leaving unasked during his parents’ lifetimes, and limpid, even poetic, prose."

– Library Journal

"When Michael Moritz was diagnosed with a genetic disease, it launched him on a bracingly honest search into his heritage. It's an inspiring and unsettling family and religious tale, but also something larger: a guide to how we all struggle to figure out what we must embrace and what we want to banish from our past."

– Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Steve Jobs, Elon M

"Sir Michael Moritz’s brilliant memoir traces his parents’ journey and his own.  He has a novelists's sensitivity and patience. An outstanding examination of how tragedy reverberates across generations."

– The Economist

"The best memoirs are deeply personal but connect to the universal. By not straying far from an emotional centre, they can illuminate the present with a far greater urgency than more sweeping accounts. Ausländer, a family memoir from Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz, more than meets this mark. Thanks in no small part to Moritz’s brilliance as a writer, Ausländer's emotional power and broader relevance reverberate long after the final page."

– The Financial Times

"Ausländer casts a unique shaft of light into the darkest years of European history, and a profoundly moving, personal story of disaster and triumph unlike any other you will read."

– Andrew Marr, author of The History of Modern Britain

"Michael Moritz's career as a tech investor has been astoundingly successful, a classic version of the American Dream. Yet this powerful memoir is focused on his Ashkenazi Jewish roots and his enduring sense of being a 'foreigner,' whether growing up in gritty South Wales or reaching the top in glamorous Silicon Valley. Alienated by recent political developments on both sides of the Atlantic, he articulates a sense of homelessness that many readers will recognize. Once a journalist, he writes with elegance but also with disarming candour."

– Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution, and author of The House

"A magisterial act of filial piety. Michael Moritz encodes and decodes his emotional DNA —and what that means for his reading of the world now. It is rare to be invited to see our world so fully through someone else's eyes."

– Neil MacGregor, former director of the British Museum and the National Gallery