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The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
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 Holocaust—an 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 continents—an 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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