<![CDATA[Memory: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[Memory: A Novel]]> 2640759 13 Twenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths from a balcony, Philippe Grimbert has written a gripping novel about the hidden memories that dominated their lives. A colossal bestseller in Europe, Memory is the story of a family haunted by the secret of their past: an illicit love affair, a lost child, and a devastating betrayal dating back to the Second World War.The day after my fifteenth birthday, I finally learned what I had always known.... Growing up in postwar Paris as the sickly only child of glamorous athletic parents, the narrator invents for himself a make-believe older brother, stronger and more brilliant than he can ever be. It is only when the boy begins talking to an old family friend that he comes to realize that his imaginary sibling had a real predecessor: a half brother whose death in the concentration camps is part of a buried family secret that he was intended never to uncover. A spare, erotic, and ultimately cathartic narrative, Memory is a mesmerizing tale of coming to terms with one's shameful past through the unraveling of a series of dark desires. 2665495 12 2 2004 Memory: A Novel total:187|5:40|4:72|3:58|2:14|1:3| 187 693 329 53 5 2 false false Fri Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 07:36:08 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 07:36:37 -0700 2008
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Philippe Grimert, a Parisian psychoanalyst, blurs fiction and autobiography in a sp...

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