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The Memory Man - Softcover

Appignanesi, Lisa

 
9781900850896: The Memory Man

Synopsis

Bruno Lind is on a mission, though he may not know it. Irene Davies knows she is, but isn't sure it's the right one. Both of them are haunted by the legacy of a tangled history of love and war. Lind becomes the detective of his own unexplored life. He retraces those experiences of WWII, of refugee camps and migration. They take him to Poland and points East, to lost families and forgotton loves. Drawing on her intimate knowledge of central Europe explored in her acclaimed family memoir Losing the Dead, Lisa Appignanesi has created a compelling fiction which is also an exploration of mind and memory.

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About the Author

Lisa Appignanesi's bestselling fiction includes Sanctuary and The Dead of Winter (Bantam) as well as The Things We Do for Love, A Good Women, Dreams of Innocence and Memory and Desire (HarperCollins); nonfiction includes Losing the Dead (Chatto/Vintage) and Cabaret (new ed Yale 2004).

From the Inside Flap

"Appignanesi's absorbing novel, the winner of the 2005 Holocaust Literature Award, considers the way that private and historical memories intersect, and the importance of keeping both alive, if any accommodation with the past is to be reached. The author, who has written movingly on her own family's involvement in the Holocaust in her memoir, Losing the Dead, manages the difficult trick of making all-too familiar events seem fresh and interesting, conveying a sharp sense of place and period with her usual economy." - The Times

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