LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2022 A HISTORY TODAY BEST HISTORY
BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'A brilliant short novel that serves as a
brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the
present' The New York Times 'Excels in its readiness to court
controversy without surrendering nuance, and in place of moralising
it offers questioning that's as necessary as it is unsettling.'
Observer Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem,
Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, the unnamed
narrator of The Memory Monster recounts his own undoing. Hired as a
promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi
methods of extermination, guiding tours through the death camps.
The job becomes a mission, and then a dangerous obsession. With
great perspicuity and the bitterest black humour, The Memory
Monster confronts difficult questions that are all too relevant to
Israel and the world today: How do we process human brutality? What
makes us choose sides in conflict? And how do we honour the
suffering of our forebears without becoming consumed by it?
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