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Product Identifiers

PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-10141655999X

ISBN-139781416559993

eBay Product ID (ePID)6038499157

Product Key Features

Original LanguageFrench

Book TitleMemory : a Novel

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWar & Military, General

Publication Year2008

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorPhilippe Grimbert

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight7.5 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2007-021785

Reviews"A slim little book -- quick, but heavy with terror.Memoryis a marvel of a book, rendered in a fluid and flexible translation from the French by Polly McLean, and its deepest secret of all is that fact and fiction may not be rivals but long-lost brothers."--Financial Times, "Everything about it -- style, tone, sensibility -- is just as it should be. Everything about it -- its structure, and the path it forges toward literary truth -- commands respect." --L'Express, "'Although an only child, for many years I had a brother.' So begins this spare, remarkable novel, which reads as easily as a children's tale, yet packs a grown-up punch." -- Lisa Appignanesi,The Independent(U.K.), "Everything about it -- style, tone, sensibility -- is just as it should be. Everything about it -- its structure and the path it forges toward literary truth -- commands respect."--L' Express, "The comfort we get from the cold raw truths -- death and loss and longing -- is that life itself is capable of small beauties. Grimbert captures this with style, depth and grace. Memory is a stunning book which simultaneously manages to widen our sense of history and story-telling." -- Colum McCann, author ofZoliandDancer, "The comfort we get from the cold raw truths -- death and loss and longing -- is that life itself is capable of small beauties. Grimbert captures this with style, depth, and grace. Memory is a stunning book which simultaneously manages to widen our sense of history and storytelling."-- Colum McCann, author ofZoliandDancer, "[Memory] is a spare, haunting, brilliantly poised evocation of the way experiences of war, pain, and shame, even when unspoken, percolate through the family to shape and distort new generations." --The Independent, "A slim little book -- quick, but heavy with terror. "Memory" is a marvel of a book, rendered in a fluid and flexible translation from the French by Polly McLean, and its deepest secret of all is that fact and fiction may not be rivals but long-lost brothers." -- "Financial Times", "His allusive, spare, elliptical prose reproduces the feeling of hidden nightmares, and evokes the uncertainty of reconstructing one's life anew with only partial information -- a process undergone by Philippe within the story, and by the author in writing the book. The result is both a poignant contribution to Holocaust literature and the tragic tale of a couple whose personal history was, as Grimbert puts it, 'intertwined with History with a capital H.'" --Nextbook, "Memoryis a spare, haunting, brilliantly poised evocation of the way experiences of war, pain, and shame even when unspoken percolate through the family to shape and distort new generations."--The Independent, "Everything about it -- style, tone, sensibility -- is just as it should be. Everything about it -- its structure and the path it forges toward literary truth -- commands respect." -- "L' Express", "A slim little book -- quick, but heavy with terror. [Memory] is marvel of a book, rendered in a fluid and flexible translation from the French by Polly McLean, and its deepest secret of all is that fact and fiction may not be rivals but long-lost brothers." --Financial Times, "A spare, minimally told story, which resonates with historical and personal meaning." --Jewish Chronicle, ""Memory" is a spare, haunting, brilliantly poised evocation of the way experiences of war, pain, and shame even when unspoken percolate through the family to shape and distort new generations." -- "The Independent"

SynopsisA runaway bestseller in Europe, Memory is a stunning combination of memoir and fiction. Twenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths, Grimbert, a psychoanalyst, explores the secrets that dominated his parents lives, in this beautiful and gripping novel.

LC Classification NumberPQ2667.R493S4313