The memory monster: a novel
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Greenspan, Yardenne, translator.
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Published:
Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2020.
Format:
Book
Edition:
First Restless Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc:
169 pages ; 19 cm
Language:
Unknown
ISBN:
9781632062710, 1632062712, 9781632062710, 1632062712
Notes
General Note
"First published as Mifletzet ha-zikaron by Am Oved, Tel Aviv, 2017"--Title page verso.
Description
"The English-language debut of celebrated Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid is a fierce and harrowing tale of reckoning with the horror of the Holocaust, and how memory and the effort to preserve it can become an all-consuming monster. The narrator of Yishai Sarid's powerful novel is a young, initially reluctant Holocaust scholar working at Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. A diligent historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland during World War II, and guides tours through the camps for students and visiting dignitaries. He hungrily devours every detail of life and death in the camps and takes pride in being able to recreate for his audience the excruciating last moments of the victims' lives, and the process by which enslaved Jews were forced to dispose of the remains. The job becomes a mission, and then an addiction. Spending so much time immersed in death, his connections with the living begin to deteriorate. He resents the students lost in their iPhones, singing sentimental songs, not expressing sufficient outrage at the mass murder committed by the Germans. In fact, he even begins to detect, in the students as well as himself, a hint of admiration for the murderers--their efficiency, audacity, and determination. Force is the only way to resist force, he comes to think, and one must be prepared to kill."--Provided by publisher.
Language
Translated from the Hebrew.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Sarid, Y., & Greenspan, Y. (2020). The memory monster: a novel. First Restless Books hardcover edition. Restless Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Sarid, Yishay, 1965- and Yardenne, Greenspan. 2020. The Memory Monster: A Novel. Restless Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Sarid, Yishay, 1965- and Yardenne, Greenspan, The Memory Monster: A Novel. Restless Books, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Sarid, Yishay and Yardenne Greenspan. The Memory Monster: A Novel. First Restless Books hardcover edition. Restless Books, 2020.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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