One man attempts to come to terms with his family’s history with the
Holocaust in this “dazzling work of imagination” (Michiko
Kakutani, New York Times). “A phantasmagoric novel . . . that
successfully merges history, personal mythology, and literary
experiment. . . . A tour de force: difficult, elusive, circular,
and a triumph.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In this powerful
novel by one of Israel’s most prominent writers, Momik, the only
child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of his parents’
history. Determined to exorcise the Nazi “beast” from their
shattered lives and prepare for a second holocaust he knows is coming,
Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment.
But through the stories his great-uncle tells him—the same stories
he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp—Momik, too,
becomes “infected with humanity.” David Grossman’s masterly
fusing of vision, thought, and emotion make See Under: Love a
luminously imaginative and profoundly affecting work. “In a few
nearly mythic books, such as Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury,
Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, Gabriel García Máquez’s One
Hundred Years of Solitude, large visions of history get hold in
innovative ways. See Under: LOVE may be a worthy successor to this
small but awesome canon.” —Edmund White, The New York Times Book
Review “A world-class work of fiction, one of the most profound,
compelling, and ingenious novels that I have read in years.” —Tom
LeClair, USA Today “An incredibly original and imaginative novel by
one of Israel’s truly gifted young writers.” —Library Journal
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A Novel
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781466803756
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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