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Diary of the Fall

Michel Laub

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#2666 of 8,085 books · #1178 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award (2016).

A schoolboy prank goes horribly wrong, and a thirteen-year-old boy is left injured. Years later, one of the classmates relives the episode as he tries to come to terms with his demons. Diary of the Fall is the story of three generations: a man examining the mistakes of his past, and his struggle for forgiveness; a father with Alzheimer's, for whom recording every memory has become an obsession; and a grandfather who survived Auschwitz, filling notebook after notebook with the false memories of someone desperate to forget. The novel asks the most basic and yet most complex questions about history and identity, exploring what stories we choose to tell about ourselves and how we become the people we are.

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Publisher
Other Press
ISBN-13
9781846557323
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Memory and identityGuilt and forgivenessIntergenerational trauma

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