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- Publisher: Harpercollins
- ISBN: 0060542993
- WAPI (Tower ID): 101654095
- Release Date: September 1, 2007
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #59527 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #2632 in History Books (See Top 100 History Books Bestsellers)
- #12 in Holocaust (See Top 100 Holocaust Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "The Lost" by Daniel Mendelsohn and Matt Mendelsohn to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Lost"Browse more products related to "Daniel Mendelsohn and Matt Mendelsohn"Review"Gathering conviction as it gains momentum, [THE LOST] is a sensitively written book that constantly asks itself the most difficult questions about history and memory and responds not with definitive, consoling answers but with yet more troubling questions. THE LOST is profoundly moving, but in the most respectful, least manipulative way. It is rigorous and erudite, but also extremely subtle at times as to seem ethereal, which, as absence is ultimately its theme, is apposite." "It is a tribute to Mendelsohn's narrative skills that one soon finds the close focus on family details absorbing, novelistic. Before long, one begins to grasp Mendelsohn's method, which draws on both the classical and the Biblical modes of storytelling. In fact, his interspersed meditations on conflicting models of storytelling are one of the most thought-provoking and original features of the book." "Mendelsohn constructs an artful, looping narrative that includes elaborate digressions on such topics as the Hebrew Bible, Homeric narrative, and tensions within his own immediate family. The technique pays off, showing how the Holocaust continues to affect people who had no direct experience of it." "[A] brilliant, steely-eyed personal history....[T]his is in the end, Mendelsohn's own story, an epic in the style of his Greek masters....It unfolds in a circular fashion, so that only, at the very end...are all the threads...truly woven together, with an essayistic rigor and force that recall the recent work of Jonathan Franzen or early Joan Didion." "Here, above all, is an unrelenting quest into the life and death of others....It's a vast, highly colored tapestry. Indeed, with passion and no little grit, [Mendelsohn] weaves in snippets of language, fragments of incident, fleeting names--and succeeds in assembling an immensely human tableau in which each witness has a face and each face a story and destiny." "THE LOST is the most gripping, the most amazing true story I have read in years...For us, who live in an age in which the appetite for killing of the innocent hasn't abated, THE LOST is a terrifying reminder of the struggle that keeps being waged by people throughout history to safeguard from extinction the memories of some life and some great injustice before they are plunged into darkness." First lineSome time ago, when I was six or seven or eight years old, it would occasionally happen that I'd walk into a room and certain people would begin to cry. Publisher's noteThe author of The Exclusive Embrace describes how his family was haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the holocaust and how he embarked on a determined search to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his lost ancestors' fates, an effort that took him to a dozen countries on three continents. 100,000 first printing. AnnotationNoted critic and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn never knew his uncle Shmiel, who died in the Holocaust, but family members who did never forgot him, and they spoke about him to Daniel, who was moved enough to begin a search to learn of the fate of his uncle, his uncle's wife, and their four daughters. Beginning with letters written by Shmiel to his American relatives, Mendelsohn's decades-long search takes him far, including Israel, Ukraine, and Australia, where, along with his photographer brother Matt, he meets with people who knew his uncle and who provide pieces of the story of his life and clues to the circumstances of his death. Mendelsohn's telling of his search is deepened by his commentaries on Biblical tales and classical references. In his search for the lost life of Shmiel Jager, Daniel Mendelsohn recaptures the past in the story of the inhabitants of the town of Bolechow, many of whom perished and a few, all non-Jews, who survived to bear witness to history. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2006. If You Enjoy "The Lost (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "The Lost (Paperback)" by Daniel Mendelsohn (Author) and...There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Holocaust Bestsellers
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