The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million - Softcover

Daniel Mendelsohn

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9780007265992: The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

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ISBN 10: 0007265999 ISBN 13: 9780007265992

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2008

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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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About the Author:

Daniel Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker, is the author of the New York Times and international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. He teaches at Bard College in New York.

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