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Atria Books
July 2016
On Sale: July 12, 2016
Featuring: Samuel
ISBN: 1501138022 EAN: 9781501138027 Kindle: B0176M1AJ4 Hardcover / e-Book
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WINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE, SWEDEN’S MOST PRESTIGIOUS
LITERARY HONOR One of Sweden’s most celebrated young writers and activists
spins an exhilarating, innovative, and gripping murder
mystery reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial. A young man named Samuel dies in a horrible car crash. Was
it an accident or was it suicide? To answer that question,
an unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to map
Samuel’s last day alive. Through conversations with friends,
relatives, and neighbors, a portrait of Samuel emerges: the
loving grandchild, the reluctant bureaucrat, the loyal
friend, the contrived poseur. The young man who did
everything for his girlfriend Laide and shared everything
with his best friend Vandad. Until he lost touch with them both. By piecing together an exhilarating narrative puzzle, we
follow Samuel from the first day he encounters the towering
Vandad to when they become roommates. We meet Panther,
Samuel’s self-involved childhood friend whose move to Berlin
indirectly cues the beginning of Samuel’s search for the
meaning of love—which in turn leads Samuel to Laide. Soon,
Samuel’s relationship with Laide leads to a chasm in his
friendship with Vandad, and it isn’t long before the lines
between loyalty and betrayal, protection, and peril get
blurred irrevocably. EVERYTHING I DON'T REMEMBER is a gripping tale about love
and memory. But it is also a story about a writer who, by
filling out the contours of Samuel’s story, is actually
trying to grasp a truth about himself. In the end, what
remains of all our fleeting memories? And what is hidden
behind everything we don’t remember? Told with Khemiri’s
characteristic stylistic ingenuity, this is an emotional
roller coaster ride of a book that challenges us to see
ourselves—and our relationships to the closest people in our
lives—in new and sometimes shocking ways.
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