Memory: A Novel Paperback - 2008
by Grimbert, Philippe
- Used
A runaway bestseller in Europe, "Memory" is a stunning combination of memoir and fiction. Twenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths, Grimbert, a psychoanalyst, explores the secrets that dominated his parents lives, in this beautiful and gripping novel.
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Details
- Title Memory: A Novel
- Author Grimbert, Philippe
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition UsedVeryGood The cover is clean but does show some wear.
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, U.S.A.
- Date 2008-12-30
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- Bookseller's Inventory # 49FF82009PFT
- ISBN 9781416560005 / 1416560009
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 6.8 x 5 x 0.5 in (17.27 x 12.70 x 1.27 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Holocaust survivors, France
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009291181
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
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.
