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Diary of the Fall Hardcover - 2014

by Michel Laub; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)


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From one ofGranta s Best Young Brazilian Novelists, a literary masterpiece that will break your heart

At the narrator s elite Jewish school in a posh suburb of Porte Alegre, a cruel prank leaves the only Catholic student there terribly injured. Years later, he relives the episode as he examines the mistakes of his past and struggles for forgiveness. His father, who has Alzheimer s, obsessively records every memory that comes to mind, and his grandfather, who survived Auschwitz, fills notebook after notebook with the false memories of someone desperate to forget.
This powerful novel centered on guilt and the complicated legacy of history asks provocative questions about what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century."

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  • Title Diary of the Fall
  • Author Michel Laub; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 225
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Other Press (NY)
  • Date 2014-08-26
  • ISBN 9781590516515 / 1590516516
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.45 x 4.83 x 0.96 in (18.92 x 12.27 x 2.44 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014005574
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

“Michel Laub has constructed a painful, relentless and ultimately beautiful portrait of three generations, whose stories, told in parallel, culminate in the most innocent and surprising expression of love. A rewarding and excellent read.” —Martin Fletcher, author of Walking Israel, winner of the National Jewish Book Award

"Finally, a novel about the relationship between Judaism’s past and present that explores new territory instead of adding yet another set of tired footprints to overworked ground. Diary of the Fall is a refreshingly honest and startlingly original book." —Myla Goldberg, bestselling author of Bee Season and The False Friend
 
"Brutal yet delicate, Laub’s novel asks what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century, and it attempts to understand man’s basic identity, ‘part of a past that is likewise of no importance compared to what I am and will be.'" —Justin Alvarez, in the Paris Review Blog

About the author

Michel Laub was born in Porto Alegre and currently lives in Sao Paulo. He is a writer, journalist, and the author of five novels. DIARY OF THE FALL is his first to be published in English, and has won the Brasilia Award and the Bravo!/Bradesco Prize. Michel was named one of Granta's twenty Best Young Brazilian Novelists in 2012.
Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator for over twenty-five years and has translated many novels and short stories by Portuguese, Spanish, and Latin American writers, including Javier Marias, Fernando Pessoa, Jose Saramago, Bernardo Atxaga and Ramon del Valle-Inclan. She has won various prizes for her work, including, in 2008, the PEN Book-of-the-Month Translation Award and the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize for her version of Eca de Queiroz's masterpiece The Maias, and, most recently, the 2011 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize for The Elephant's Journey by Jose Saramago. She lives in Leicester, England. The author lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil."
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