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'A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable ...Show synopsis'A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, "The Lost" is as complex and rich with meaning and story as the past it seeks to illuminate. A beautiful book, beautifully written.' Michael Chabon 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 the fragmentary tales of a terrible betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relative's 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.Hide synopsis
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I seem to be drawn to books about the Holocaust. I have read so many books about it that I've lost count. These book s are always frightening and treable sad, but the Lost Haunted me. The way theat Daniel Mendelsohn writes takes me breath away. As I was reading this book I kept finding myself reacing ...
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The Lost is a beautifully written, meandering and ultimately very moving tale of one man's quest to fill in the outlines of six lives that were extinguished by the Holocaust. Mendelsohn has fulfilled the fantasies of many by writing a family history based on archival and oral research, which is at ...
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