The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Autor Daniel Mendelsohn Fotografii de Matt Mendelsohnen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2007
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In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic--part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work--that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780060542993
ISBN-10: 0060542993
Pagini: 516
Dimensiuni: 142 x 203 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: Harper Perennial
ISBN-10: 0060542993
Pagini: 516
Dimensiuni: 142 x 203 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: Harper Perennial
Recenzii
“Epic and personal, meditative and suspenseful, tragic and at times hilarious, The Lost is a wonderful book.”
“A beautiful book, beautifully written.”
“A stirring detective work, The Lost is … deepened by reflections on the inescapable part that chance plays in history.”
“Daniel Mendelsohn has written a powerfully moving work of a “lost” family past. . . . A remarkable achievement.”
“Mendelsohn, a classicist, creates a stunning Odyssey here, an epic world-wandering.”
“An excellent memoir. . . . The Lost . . . brings to life the struggle of an entire generation.”
“A stunning memoir. . . . As suspenseful as a detective thriller, and as difficult to put down.”
“The Lost is a sensitively written book that constantly asks itself the most difficult questions about history and memory.”
“A grand book, an ambitious undertaking fully realized.”
“A magnificent and deeply wise book. . . . Mesmerizing. . . . Mendelsohn’s accomplishment is enormous.”
“The Lost is the most gripping, the most amazing true story I have read in years.”
“A stunning achievement. . . . Extraordinary.”
“Hugely ambitious yet intensely engaging. . . . Absorbing, novelistic. . . . Thought-provoking and original.”
“Stunning. . . . A singular achievement, a work of major significance and pummeling impact.”
"Mendelsohn, a classicist, creates a stunning "Odyssey" here, an epic world-wandering."--Garry Wills
“A beautiful book, beautifully written.”
“A stirring detective work, The Lost is … deepened by reflections on the inescapable part that chance plays in history.”
“Daniel Mendelsohn has written a powerfully moving work of a “lost” family past. . . . A remarkable achievement.”
“Mendelsohn, a classicist, creates a stunning Odyssey here, an epic world-wandering.”
“An excellent memoir. . . . The Lost . . . brings to life the struggle of an entire generation.”
“A stunning memoir. . . . As suspenseful as a detective thriller, and as difficult to put down.”
“The Lost is a sensitively written book that constantly asks itself the most difficult questions about history and memory.”
“A grand book, an ambitious undertaking fully realized.”
“A magnificent and deeply wise book. . . . Mesmerizing. . . . Mendelsohn’s accomplishment is enormous.”
“The Lost is the most gripping, the most amazing true story I have read in years.”
“A stunning achievement. . . . Extraordinary.”
“Hugely ambitious yet intensely engaging. . . . Absorbing, novelistic. . . . Thought-provoking and original.”
“Stunning. . . . A singular achievement, a work of major significance and pummeling impact.”
"Mendelsohn, a classicist, creates a stunning "Odyssey" here, an epic world-wandering."--Garry Wills
Descriere
Mendelsohn grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust--an unmentionable subject during his childhood. Decades later, he embarked on a hunt for the remaining eyewitnesses of his relatives fates. This is their story.
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In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history.
The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust—an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939 and tantalized by fragmentary tales of a terrible betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives' fates. That quest eventually takes him to a dozen countries on four continents, and forces him to confront the wrenching discrepancies between the histories we live and the stories we tell. And it leads him, finally, back to the small Ukrainian town where his family's story began, and where the solution to a decades-old mystery awaits him.
Deftly moving between past and present, interweaving a world-wandering odyssey with childhood memories of a now-lost generation of immigrant Jews and provocative ruminations on biblical texts and Jewish history, The Lost transforms the story of one family into a profound, morally searching meditation on our fragile hold on the past. Deeply personal, grippingly suspenseful, and beautifully written, this literary tour de force illuminates all that is lost, and found, in the passage of time.
The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust—an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939 and tantalized by fragmentary tales of a terrible betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives' fates. That quest eventually takes him to a dozen countries on four continents, and forces him to confront the wrenching discrepancies between the histories we live and the stories we tell. And it leads him, finally, back to the small Ukrainian town where his family's story began, and where the solution to a decades-old mystery awaits him.
Deftly moving between past and present, interweaving a world-wandering odyssey with childhood memories of a now-lost generation of immigrant Jews and provocative ruminations on biblical texts and Jewish history, The Lost transforms the story of one family into a profound, morally searching meditation on our fragile hold on the past. Deeply personal, grippingly suspenseful, and beautifully written, this literary tour de force illuminates all that is lost, and found, in the passage of time.
Notă biografică
Daniel Mendelsohn a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, is the author of the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. He teaches at Bard College.
Premii
- Discover Great New Writers Second Place, 2006
- National Jewish Book Award Winner, 2006
- National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, 2006
- L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, 2006
- Quill Awards Nominee, 2007