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THE LOST: A SEARCH FOR SIX OF SIX MILLION
By: Daniel Mendelsohn
HarperCollins
September 2006
560 pages
ISBN: 0060542977
EAN: 9780060542979
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The Lost is the story of an odyssey in search of six ghosts. Daniel Mendelsohn grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaustβan unmentionable subject that gripped the author's imagination from his earliest childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939, he embarked on a hunt for the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives fates. That quest eventually took him to a dozen countries on three continentsβan epic journey that gradually exposed the tragic conflicts that can arise between the history we live and the stories we tell. Deftly moving between past and present, interweaving reportage, richly evoked 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 timely, morally searching meditation on our fragile hold on the past. At once erudite and deeply personal, grippingly suspenseful and beautifully written, this literary tour de force brilliantly illuminates all that is lost, and found, in the passage of time.
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