by Daniel Mendelsohn · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780060542993
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In this rich and riveting narrative, Daniel Mendelsohn embarks on a search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II. Through a combination of memoir, reportage, mystery, and scholarly detective work, the author explores themes such as time, memory, family, and history. The story begins with Mendelsohn's childhood, marked by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust, a taboo subject that sparked his imagination from an early age. Decades later, spurred by desperate letters addressed to his grandfather in 1939 and fragmented accounts of betrayal, Mendelsohn embarks on a journey that takes him to several countries in search of witnesses to his family's story, confronting the discrepancies between the histories we live and the stories we tell.
Daniel Adam Mendelsohn is an American author, essayist, critic, columnist, and translator.
