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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781442973701
Format: Large Print
ISBN: 1442973706
Label: ReadHowYouWant
Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 292
Publication Date: September 02, 2009
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Studio: ReadHowYouWant
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On the last day of 1999, a survivor grandmother in Tel Aviv shares with her granddaughter her tragic life story as a child hidden in a pit, with only a rat for company. The granddaughter tells the legend of ''Girl and Rat'' to her teacher; in 2009 those who heard it through her classmates establish an internet website with poems. From now on this memory is spread all over the world and becomes a myth. A future anthropologist, researching its mysterious roots in 2099, discovers Father Stanislaw's personal journal documenting his rescue of that little Jewish girl, and so the chain of remembearers moves from the present to the future and back to the past.
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What this most original of novels does is to combine memory--the retrieval of the past--with imagination, a sort of memory of the future, in a way that is sensitive, humane, and illuminating. A world that is becoming all too unreal to all too many people is here recaptured, brought to the light, through a process that everyone can empathize with and understand.
Leslie Epstein
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What does it mean to remember? And especially to share those memories where words alone cannot convey a complete sense of experience? How can emotional memory be shared between generations?
Ms Semel weaves these questions into her story about a Holocaust survivor grandmother in Tel Aviv whose granddaughter is seeking to interview her about her experiences as a child during World War II. The grandmother's memory is clear but recounting such horrors cannot be done directly. The granddaughter's ... Read More
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The real hero of this powerful book is memory itself. What's the future of Holocaust memory and how will we remember this horrible event in the years to come? Nava Semel uses powerful tools in order to send her readers onto a journey through time. She guides us into the "Human library of Memories" in the year 2099, where her protagonist Lima explores a well known myth called "Girl and Rat". She tries to track down the true story of a small Jewish girl in Poland in 1942, whose parents who wanted to save her life ... Read More
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This strange, evocative, grim, and brilliant book will grab you in the first pages and will not let you go. You may want to put it down, because the experiences within will bring you to a depth of pain and of evil you have likely not experienced; but even if you walk away to try to heal yourself, as I initially did, the vividly drawn characters will not leave you; you will return to read on because the author weaves a story of such intricacy and beauty, even as it tears at your soul, that you will be compelled to ... Read More
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EAN: 9781442973701
Format: Large Print
ISBN: 1442973706
Label: ReadHowYouWant
Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 292
Publication Date: September 02, 2009
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Studio: ReadHowYouWant