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The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

of Daniel Mendelsohn

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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.***Depuis qu’il est enfant, Daniel Mendelsohn sait que son grand-oncle Shmiel, sa femme et leurs quatre filles ont Ă©tĂ© tuĂ©s, quelque part dans l’est de la Pologne, en 1941. Comment, quand, oĂč exactement ? Nul ne peut lui en dire plus. Et puis il dĂ©couvre ces lettres dĂ©sespĂ©rĂ©es Ă©crites en 1939 par Shmiel Ă  son frĂšre, installĂ© en AmĂ©rique, des lettres pressant sa famille de les aider Ă  partir, des lettres demeurĂ©es sans rĂ©ponse... Parce qu’il a voulu savoir ce qui s’est passĂ©, parce qu’il a voulu donner un visage Ă  ces six disparus, Daniel Mendelsohn est parti sur leurs traces, rencontrant, annĂ©e aprĂšs annĂ©e, des tĂ©moins Ă©pars dans une douzaine de pays. Cette quĂȘte, il en a fait un livre, puzzle vertigineux, roman policier haletant, plongĂ©e dans l’Histoire et l’oubli – un chef-d’Ɠuvre. « Daniel Mendelsohn a Ă©crit une Ɠuvre puissamment Ă©mouvante sur le passĂ© " ; perdu " ; d’une famille, qui rappelle Ă  la fois l’opulence des Ɠuvres en prose de Proust et les textes elliptiques de W.G. Sebald. Une rĂ©ussite exceptionnelle. » Joyce Carol Oates « Les Disparus est une bouleversante enquĂȘte de dĂ©tective Ă  part entiĂšre, doublĂ©e d’un questionnement sur les interventions Ă©nigmatiques de Dieu dans les affaires humaines, et approfondie par une rĂ©flexion sur la part d’inĂ©luctable et d’incomprĂ©hensible que le hasard introduit dans l’Histoire. » John Maxwell CƓtzee « Entre Ă©popĂ©e et intimitĂ©, mĂ©ditation et suspense, tragĂ©die et hilaritĂ©, Les Disparus est un livre merveilleux. » Jonathan Safran FƓr « Mendelsohn rĂ©ussit Ă  assembler un tableau immensĂ©ment humain dans lequel chaque tĂ©moin a un visage et chaque visage une histoire et un destin. » Elie Wiesel

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Nonfiction Nonfiction History Holocaust Memoir World War II Biography Jewish War Historical Biography Memoir

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Book Details

  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 512 pages
  • Publisher Harper
  • Publication Date September 19th 2006
  • First Publication 10/30/06
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780060542979
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Non-Fiction
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