ENGLISHPORTUGUESE

Diary of the fall

By Michel , Costa , Margaret Jull; Laub

Book information

Publisher
Other Press
Year
2014
ISBN
1590516516, 978-1-59051-651-5, 978-1-59051-652-2, 1590516524, 9781846557323, 1846557321
Language
englishportuguese
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2231206 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
225\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction.

Description

From one of Granta’s Best Young Brazilian Novelists, a literary masterpiece that will break your heartAt the narrator’s elite Jewish school in a posh suburb of Porte Alegre, a cruel prank leaves the only Catholic student there terribly injured. Years later, he relives the episode as he examines the mistakes of his past and struggles for forgiveness. His father, who has Alzheimer’s, obsessively records every memory that comes to mind, and his grandfather, who survived Auschwitz, fills notebook after notebook with the false memories of someone desperate to forget.This powerful novel centered on guilt and the complicated legacy of history asks provocative questions about what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century

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