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Title: Diary of the Fall
Author: Michel Laub
ISBN: 9781590516515
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2014
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 240
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: From one ofGranta s Best Young Brazilian Novelists, a literary masterpiece that will break your heart
At the narrator s elite Jewish school in a posh suburb of Porte Alegre, a cruel prank leaves the only Catholic student there terribly injured. Years later, he relives the episode as he examines the mistakes of his past and struggles for forgiveness. His father, who has Alzheimer s, obsessively records every memory that comes to mind, and his grandfather, who survived Auschwitz, fills notebook after notebook with the false memories of someone desperate to forget.
This powerful novel centered on guilt and the complicated legacy of history asks provocative questions about what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century."
Author: Michel Laub
ISBN: 9781590516515
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2014
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 240
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: From one ofGranta s Best Young Brazilian Novelists, a literary masterpiece that will break your heart
At the narrator s elite Jewish school in a posh suburb of Porte Alegre, a cruel prank leaves the only Catholic student there terribly injured. Years later, he relives the episode as he examines the mistakes of his past and struggles for forgiveness. His father, who has Alzheimer s, obsessively records every memory that comes to mind, and his grandfather, who survived Auschwitz, fills notebook after notebook with the false memories of someone desperate to forget.
This powerful novel centered on guilt and the complicated legacy of history asks provocative questions about what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century."
