When Memory Comes - Hardcover

Friedlander, Saul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374288984 ISBN 13: 9780374288983

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2013

Synopsis

The author's memoir of his childhood and adolescence in a middle-class, assimilated, Jewish home in Prague and of his harrowing separation from his parents raise questions about being a Zionist and about being a Jew in Israel today

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Review

"A work of eloquence and compassion."-- John Skow, "Time" "A work of eloquence and compassion."--John Skow, "Time" "A beautifully written (and beautifully translated) memoir of a tragic childhood."-- "New Yorker" "Friedlander undertakes an evocative journey into his past that is likely to leave many a reader shaken."--Amos Elon, "New York Times Book Review" "A work of eloquence and compassion." John Skow, "Time"" "A tender elegy which moves from the Israeli present to the European past, from fear to memory, in a mosaic of Proustian images." "New Republic"" "The most remarkable feature of "When Memory Comes" is its composure, an elegance that is unnerving. Friedlander describes his experiences in lean, graceful sentences; his language seems armored against the dissolution it describes." Leon Wieseltier, "The New York Review of Books"" "A beautifully written (and beautifully translated) memoir of a tragic childhood." "New Yorker"" "Friedlander undertakes an evocative journey into his past that is likely to leave many a reader shaken." Amos Elon, "New York Times Book Review"" "Friedla nder undertakes an evocative journey into his past that is likely to leave many a reader shaken."-- Amos Elon, "New York Times Book Review"

About the Author

Saul Friedländer is an award-winning Israeli historian and currently a professor of history at UCLA. He was born in Prague to a family of German-speaking Jews, grew up in France, and experienced the German Occupation of 1940-1944. His historical works have garnered much praise and recognition, including the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945. Helen R. Lane was a renowned translator of Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian literary works into English. She translated works by numerous important authors, including Jorge Amado, Marguerite Duras, Mario Vargas Llosa, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Octavio Paz. She received the PEN Translation Prize in 1975 and 1985. Alternating Current, Lane's translation of Octavio Paz, shared the 1974 U.S. National Book Award in the Translation category.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374288984
• ISBN 13: 9780374288983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192