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Ruth Zylberman, The Department of Missing Persons; Louis Begley, Wartime Lies
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Signed By
- na
- Signed
- No
- Book Series
- Historical
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- French
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- California Prop 65 Warning
- na
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Literary Movement
- na
- Era
- 1940s
- Illustrator
- na
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Personalization Instructions
- na
- ISBN
- 9781628728033
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1628728035
ISBN-13
9781628728033
eBay Product ID (ePID)
235433470
Product Key Features
Book Title
Department of Missing Persons : a Novel
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Family Life, Historical, Jewish
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-015970
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"Not for the faint of heart, The Department of Missing Persons is a heart-wrenching descent into the annals of human suffering and the aftershocks of devastation left in its wake. A brutal, yet poignant literary tapestry, it is a study of incomprehensible cruelty, but also, of love, compassion, and the ties that bind."--Nicole Dweck, bestselling author of The Debt of Tamar "What does it mean to survive a massive world catastrophe like the Holocaust? Ruth Zylberman's moving novel shows that a violent past produces aftershocks that reach deep into the lives of the children and grandchildren of survivors, threatening to overwhelm their present. The missing persons of the title may well be the living, as well as the dead."--Marianne Hirsch, author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust "A shock . . . Can one make fiction of the unspeakable, the unnarrateable? . . . What is troubling in this novel is how Ruth Zylberman describes the degree to which this past interferes with her and her narrator's love life and even affects the walks she takes with her mother in the streets of Paris." -- France Info, "A shock . . . Can one make fiction of the unspeakable, the unnarrateable? . . . What is troubling in this novel is how Ruth Zylberman describes the degree to which this past interferes with her and her narrator's love life and even affects the walks she takes with her mother in the streets of Paris." -- France Info, "A shock . . . Can one make fiction of the unspeakable, the unnarrateable? . . . What is troubling in this novel is how Ruth Zilberman describes the degree to which this past interferes with her and her narrator's love life and even affects the walks she takes with her mother in the streets of Paris."-- France Info
Synopsis
A startling debut novel about the burden of Holocaust memory and the implacable zest for life. Thirty-six years after her mother was liberated from Auschwitz, the unnamed narrator lives a comfortable life in Paris. Her mother sees ghosts at every turn, longing to find the family that disappeared behind the miasma of the Holocaust, but she cannot reconcile her mother's trauma to the cheery bustle of daily life that surrounds them. The pain of memories that are not hers haunt her, weighing all too heavily until she is incapacitated by them, unable forge her own future. As our narrator becomes further entrenched in the past, a letter is sent by the Department of Missing Persons suggesting that her grandfather is not dead, though details of his survival and current situation are unknown. Along with her mother, the narrator begins a desperate hunt, fighting through the past and present, love and loss, and her own vulnerabilities to find the truth and rid them both of their lingering ghosts., A startling debut novel about the burden of Holocaust memory and the implacable zest for life. Thirty-six years after her mother was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, the unnamed narrator lives a comfortable life in Paris. Her mother sees ghosts at every turn, longing to find the family that disappeared behind the miasma of the Holocaust, but she cannot reconcile her mother's trauma to the cheery bustle of daily life that surrounds them. The pain of memories that are not hers haunt her, weighing all too heavily until she is incapacitated by them, unable forge her own future. As our narrator becomes further entrenched in the past, a letter is sent by the Department of Missing Persons suggesting that her grandfather is not dead, though details of his survival and current situation are unknown. Along with her mother, the narrator begins a desperate hunt, fighting through the past and present, love and loss, and her own vulnerabilities to find the truth and rid them both of their lingering ghosts.
LC Classification Number
PQ2686.Y58D5713 2017
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