The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

<p>In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic-part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work-that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history. The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust-an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939 and tantalized by fragmentary tales of a terrible betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives' fates. That quest eventually takes him to a dozen countries on four continents, and forces him to confront the wrenching discrepancies between the histories we live and the stories we tell. And it leads him, finally, back to the small Ukrainian town where his family's story began, and where the solution to a decades-old mystery awaits him. Deftly moving between past and present, interweaving a world-wandering odyssey with 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 profound, morally searching meditation on our fragile hold on the past. Deeply personal, grippingly suspenseful, and beautifully written, this literary tour de force illuminates all that is lost, and found, in the passage of time.</p>

The Lost: A search for six of six million

History

Daniel Mendelsohn

Europe

HarperPress

Biographies & Memoirs

Harper-perennial

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-01-02 Language: English Publisher: William Collins A glimpse into the mind of one of the most unique sculptors of the twentieth century This monograph considers Mattiacci's historic adventures starting from the 1960s. when the artist was associated. with the Italian avant-garde movement Arte Povera.

LOST PB

William Collins

The first full-length study of Children of Herakles and Suppliant Women to appear in fifty years, Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays uses fresh insights into the Greek conception of gender and the Athenian ideology of civic identity to demonstrate at last the formal elegance and intellectual complexity of two works that are still dismissed as artistic failures within the poet's oeuvre.

Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

The Lost: A Search For Six Of Six Million

Matt Mendelsohn

HarperCollins, Publishers

Historical

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

Die Verlorenen

Kiepenheuer & Witsch

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