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Diary of the fall

ID 285767
Slug diary-of-the-fall
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Description <p><b>‘I often dreamed about the moment of the fall, a silence that lasted a second, possibly two, a room full of sixty people and no one making a sound, as if everyone were waiting for my classmate to cry out ... but he lay on the ground with his eyes closed’</b></p><p>A schoolboy prank goes horribly wrong, and a thirteen-year-old boy is left injured. Years later, one of the classmates relives the episode as he tries to come to terms with his demons. </p><p><i>Diary of the Fall </i>is the story of three generations: a man examining the mistakes of his past, and his struggle for forgiveness; a father with Alzheimer’s, for whom recording every memory has become an obsession; and a grandfather who survived Auschwitz, filling notebook after notebook with the false memories of someone desperate to forget. </p><p>Beautiful and brave, Michel Laub’s novel asks the most basic – and yet most complex – questions about history and identity, exploring what stories we choose to tell about ourselves and how we become the people we are.</p>
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301 Literaire roman, novelle NUR
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Publisher Vintage UK
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Language eng
Page count 192
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Publication date first 2015-04-29
Publication date latest 2015-04-29
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  • ISBN: 9780099581796 (BC)

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