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Book

Forgetting

Call Number

  • FICTION FINK (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Languages

Translated from the French.

Publication Information

Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023.

Physical Description

178 pages ; 21 cm

Uniform Title

Oubli. English

Summary

"Forgetting is a brief but searing sojourn inside the mind of Alma as she navigates the complexity of the past and future within her identity. On her nighttime wanderings through a Paris saturated with cultural and historical meaning, she begins the slow work of grieving for her grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, and starts to unravel the ways that his experience continues to reverberate across generations. The journey, both inward and outward, simple and infinitely varied, brings Alma to reconsider her whole life and the circumstances that led to her very birth. In Forgetting, Finkelstein sheds new light on the oldest dilemmas, asking: 'What to do with the brief time that is given to us?'"--

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