The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
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Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost 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. 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). And you can watch his own moving introduction to the book in this short video: 
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| I have never written a review for a book before, but this one compels me to write one. I was in the bookstore and happened by The Lost. I do not typically get into this type of book, but I felt almost a longing to read this one. The Holocaust has--to me--been a terrible but vague thing that I thought I knew about. But to read this book is to make it personal. For the first time, I truly began to understand that there are individual stories in this huge, catastrophic event of history. It is not simply "history" but the lives of people. Mendelsohn's journey to discover what happened to his family is beautiful and draws you in. I felt I wanted to know these people and had been denied the opportunity to meet them by a sad history. Now, with certain people denying the truth of the Holocaust (how could they?!?), this book is more important than ever. It should be required reading for us all. (The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 was the writing style--subjective, I know. But the run-on sentences that went on for half a page and the alomst complete lack of quotation marks sometimes made it hard to follow. Worth it, but hard to follow on occasion. And please don't let the pet peeve of a former English teacher stop you from reading this book!) If you never read another book, read this one. |
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