Twenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths
from a balcony, Philippe Grimbert has written a gripping novel
about the hidden memories that dominated their lives.
A colossal bestseller in Europe, "Memory" is the story of a family
haunted by the secret of their past: an illicit love affair, a lost
child, and a devastating betrayal dating back to the Second World
War.
"The day after my fifteenth birthday, I finally learned what I had
always known.... "
Growing up in postwar Paris as the sickly only child of glamorous
athletic parents, the narrator invents for himself a make-believe
older brother, stronger and more brilliant than he can ever be. It
is only when the boy begins talking to an old family friend that he
comes to realize that his imaginary sibling had a real predecessor:
a half brother whose death in the concentration camps is part of a
buried family secret that he was intended never to uncover.
A spare, erotic, and ultimately cathartic narrative, "Memory" is a
mesmerizing tale of coming to terms with one's shameful past
through the unraveling of a series of dark desires.
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