A01=Yishai Sarid
Author_Yishai Sarid
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controversial Jewish fiction
culture of memory
David Grossman
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Holocaust commemoration culture
Holocaust novel
holocaust trauma
Israeli politics fiction
Poland war guilt
Primo Levi
Shalom Auslander
Son of Saul
Yad Vashem
Product details
- ISBN 9781788169110
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 134 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jan 2022
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2022
A HISTORY TODAY BEST HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022
'A brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the present' The New York Times
'Excels in its readiness to court controversy without surrendering nuance, and in place of moralising it offers questioning that's as necessary as it is unsettling.' Observer
Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, the unnamed narrator of The Memory Monster recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination, guiding tours through the death camps. The job becomes a mission, and then a dangerous obsession.
With great perspicuity and the bitterest black humour, The Memory Monster confronts difficult questions that are all too relevant to Israel and the world today: How do we process human brutality? What makes us choose sides in conflict? And how do we honour the suffering of our forebears without becoming consumed by it?
Yishai Sarid is an active lawyer and arbitrator in Tel Aviv. Alongside his legal career, he has written six novels, which have been translated into ten languages and have won literary prizes including the Bernstein Literary Award and Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
Yardenne Greenspan is a writer and Hebrew translator. Her translations have been published by Restless Books, St. Martin's Press, Akashic and others and are forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. She is a regular contributor to Ploughshares.
