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The Lost - A Search for Six of Six Million (Paperback)
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The Lost - A Search for Six of Six Million (Paperback)
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Loot Price R403
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A writer's search for his family's tragic past in World War II
becomes a remarkably original and riveting epic, brilliantly
exploring the nature of time and memory. '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, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to
find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relative's fates. The quest
takes him to a dozen countries and forces him to confront the
wrenching discrepancies between the histories we live and the
stories we tell. Finally, he goes 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 memories of a
vanished generation, 'The Lost' transforms the story of one family
into a profound and morally searching study of 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.
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