The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (P.S.)

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In this rich and riveting narrative, a creator’s search for the truth at the back of his Circle of relatives’s tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, Circle of relatives and history.

Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost is the deeply personal account of a search for one Circle of relatives among his larger Circle of relatives, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were “killed by the Nazis.” Mendelsohn, whilst a boy, was once at all times the one interested in his Circle of relatives’s history, but when he came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, pleading for help from his American relatives as the Nazi grip on the lives of Jews in their Polish town became tighter and tighter, he set out to find what had happened to that lost Circle of relatives. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe searching for the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives.

A whole culture lies at the back of the story Mendelsohn tells, and a life-time of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of one of the vital books at the back of his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Circle of relatives History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book). And you’ll be able to watch his own moving introduction to the book in this short video:


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