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In this powerful novel by one of Israel's most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of his parents' history. Determined to exorcise the Nazi "beast" from their shattered lives and prepare for a second holocaust he knows is coming, Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment. But through the stories his great-uncle tells him-the same stories he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp-Momik too, becomes "infected with humanity." Grossman's masterly fusing of vision, thought, and emotion makes See Under: Love a luminously imaginative and profoundly affecting work.

"...One of the most disturbing novels I've ever read...It crackles with sparks of artistic invention. It scrambles art and life together."

Edmund White, New York Times Book Review, 4/16/89

"Grossman's claim to greatness as a novelist rests chiefly on the achievement of his second novel, 'See Under: Love', a daring work about the Holocaust....[It] was the first major novel by a younger writer to engage the Holocaust directly. The novel's appearance was all the remarkable because Grossman is not a child of survivors and does not belong to the so-called phenomenon of the 'Second Generation' writers and artists...whose work is compelled by the need to work through a relationship with survivor parents. Yet...the first ninety pages...are the most stunning piece of Holocaust literature I have read in any language"....With this novel Grossman earns his stripes as an adroit practitioner of postmodernism and magic realism."

Alan Mintz, Partisan Review, Fall 1996

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