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THE LOST: A Search for Six of Six Million
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THE LOST: A Search for Six of Six Million Hardcover - 2006

by Mendelsohn, Daniel

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers , 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 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 fragmentary tales of a terrible betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives' 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. With photographs by Matt Mendelsohn. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in pictorial boards, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] NFBS2
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  • Title THE LOST: A Search for Six of Six Million
  • Author Mendelsohn, Daniel
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition 1st Printing
  • Condition New
  • Pages 528
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers , New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 021320
  • ISBN 9780060542979 / 0060542977
  • Weight 1.94 lbs (0.88 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.12 x 1.57 in (22.86 x 15.54 x 3.99 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Jews - United States, Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006041096
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.049

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