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    <body><![CDATA[Extremely  moving. Brings back in our life the past that we, as French people, cannot get away from, and which comes back to haunt us, no matter what. History through the lense of a very personal and intimate story always seems more poignant. Grimbert's story, told in simple, effective ways, avoids ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38247676">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A slim novel, Memory is translated from the original French. It was published first in the UK in English as &quot;Secret.&quot; It's a novel that reads like a memoir, especially because the subject's first name is never spoken but his family name is the same as the author's. The timing/age of the au...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63850459">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very short but powerful novel (much of which I believe is actually autobiographical) about a fifteen year old boy who learns about his family's sorrow and history during the Holocaust.  Self described as weak and sickly, Phillipe has always imagined an older brother - stronger, athletic (like his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73855089">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Всякий раз, когда мы проходили мимо колумбария, отец выражал желание быть кремированным. Только сейчас до меня дошел истинный смысл его желания.&quot; <br/>Филипп Гр...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53691261">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unlike the French, apparently, I found this book awfully flat.  There is the constant foreshadowing of a grand, astonishing secret which never unravels, really.  However, if you are looking to read a personal story of how the Holocaust effected one family and a kind of psychoanalysis (Grimbert is a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50489341">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A novel about someone discovering his parents' secret past could become cliched.  But this does not. Perhaps it is because the story is gently unfolded rather than coming as a sudden shocking revelation.  It is not just about that past as a secret but about that past as a complex truth that helps th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77764522">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quick read, though assigning the term 'quick' to a book centered around the Holocaust seems a bit wrong. The story is different in that it's told through the eyes of the author, whose parents went through the period but who himself was born after WWII ended.  Though perhaps told a bit too quickly, i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65168910">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this to be a very short, but powerful and thought-provoking book.  The story is about a young boy (with the same last name as the author), who uncovers a family secret about how his parents got together.  This book reminded me of how the tragedies of the Holocaust were superimposed on pre-ex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75423849">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[AT beginning  you think that you are reading a simple love story between 2 perfects people. Page after page of your reading, you learn that the story is more complicated that you thought. <br/>Even if you try to forget your past, one day or an other is coming to haunt you, because you have always w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61182603">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This haunting novel was one of my favorites of last year.  Based on the author's own family history, it's the story of a family haunted by the secrets of their past: an illicit love affair,a lost child, and a devastating betrayal dating back to the Second World War. Now in paperback, it's a perfect ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43031078">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A ghastly Holocaust tale, and yet it did not move me as it might have. In part, it was difficult for me to identify with the characters. There also may have been an issue with the translation, French to English. Then again, it may only be because I had just finished another Holocaust novel...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating little book; beautifully written and shockingly true (based on author's life and the family secret that was too painful to share).  This is a must-read for those interested in Holocaust fiction.  The author is French and the story takes place in Paris before/during/after World War II.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a short but interesting novel, loosely based on the author's true experience. At age 15, he discovers his parents' true past and Jewish background that they had hidden from him. They had created a whole false past of what had happened during WWII. ]]></body>
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