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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 892.437
EAN: 9781876462659
ISBN: 1876462655
Label: Hybrid Publishers
Manufacturer: Hybrid Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
Publisher: Hybrid Publishers
Studio: Hybrid Publishers
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And the Rat Laughed is a unique book. Unlike other Holocaust-related books that focus on the historical horrific events, this novel deals with the act of remembering them. It resembles a relay race in which the characters transfer memory from one another, while travelling on the axis of time. The book begins in the last day of 1999, when a survivor Grandmother in Tel Aviv shares her tragic life story as a hidden child in a pit, with only a rat for company with her granddaughter. The day after – 2000 already – the granddaughter tells the legend of "Girl and Rat" to her teacher and 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. In 2099 a future anthropologist discovers it and tries to uncover its mysterious roots. In her research, she reveals the first man who created this myth in the past. Father Stanislaw, a Catholic priest, saved that little Jewish girl (who later became the Grandmother in Tel Aviv) and returned her after the war to her Jewish people. In his personal journal he documented everything, to make sure the world will never forget. The chain of remembearers, therefore, moves from the present to the future and back to the past. The novel is written in 5 genres: story, legend, poems, science fiction and diary, creating a cycle of 150 years. And the Rat Laughed got acclaim for its use of unconventional and original literary devices and became a ground breaker for exploring the act of memory itself. How do we tell our painful story? Does it change while we recall it? How will our next recipient recall it in his own individual way? Is Art the only corridor to transfer emotional memory?
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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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Dewey Decimal Number: 892.437
EAN: 9781876462659
ISBN: 1876462655
Label: Hybrid Publishers
Manufacturer: Hybrid Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
Publisher: Hybrid Publishers
Studio: Hybrid Publishers