The Director by Daniel Kehlmann.
The Director follows the broad strokes of G. W. Pabst's life during the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, with liberal sprinklings of fiction to fill in the gaps of what various characters would have been doing and saying at any given moment. There's an eerie, surreal quality suffusing the book, and not just in the sense that a man with a Jewish wife voluntarily returned to Nazi Germany from America. Events often toe the line of reality before stepping over to highlight the unreal situations characters find themselves in, before jumping back...