The memory monster
Sarid, Yishay, 1965-2022
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'The Memory Monster' is a harrowing parable of a young historian who becomes consumed by the memory of the Holocaust. Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, our unnamed narrator recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland during World War II and guides tours through the sites for students and visiting dignitaries. He hungrily devours every detail of life and death in the camps and takes pride in being able to recreate for his audience the excruciating last moments of the victims' lives. The job becomes a mission, and then an obsession. Spending so much time immersed in death, his connections with the living begin to deteriorate.
Main title:
The memory monster / Yishai Sarid ; translated by Yardenne Greenspan.
Imprint:
London : Serpent's Tail, 2022.London : Serpent's Tail, 2022.
Collation:
192 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Hebrew.
ISBN:
9781788169110 (hbk)
Language:
EnglishHebrew
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BRN:
2577961