false 112286 9 Daniel Mendelsohn's <i>The Lost</i> is the deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." Mendelsohn, even as a boy, was always the one interested in his family'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 family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives. <p>A whole culture lies behind the story Mendelsohn tells, and a lifetime of reading as well. For our Grownup School feature, he has given us a tour of some of the books behind his own, in a list he calls 10 Great Novels of Family History, the Holocaust, New York Jewish Life (And Other Things That Helped Me Write My Book). 3140269 book 19 9 2006 The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million total:704|5:288|4:262|3:113|2:35|1:6| 704 2903 1535 223 3 3 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 14:47:36 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 15:25:31 -0700 2007 on her recent visit to France. At the time, she had no idea how interested in this book I would be.

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Mendelsohn is the self-appointed family historian who, after an entire childhood of listening to his grandfather's stories, decides to find out what hap...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon May 28 08:18:29 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 10:33:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 08 03:43:38 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 23 05:29:48 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 18:05:36 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 31 14:03:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Oct 03 11:45:19 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 08:46:31 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 15 15:43:44 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 05 09:13:08 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:49:38 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:49:38 -0800 2009 Daniel Mendelsohn, an award-winning book critic and author of The Elusive Embrace, tells a magnificent, heartbreaking story that toggles between past and present. Masterfully and lovingly narrated, his story extends Holocaust remembrance past the tragedy itself to rescue from oblivion the vanished w...

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Did the author think he's above quote marks, or did his editors talk him into this fiasco because it’s the latest "cool" trend? This stupid trend leads to complete reader confusion.

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The Lost tells the true story of the author's search to discover what happened to his great-uncle's family in WWII. His relatives can say only that Schmiel, his wife Ester and their fou...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jun 07 13:08:53 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 07 13:16:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 17 17:58:13 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 17:58:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 23:48:45 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 04:02:33 -0700 2008 more...]]>