The Memory Monster

Author: Yishai Sarid

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ISBN : 9781788169110
Publisher : Serpent's Tail Limited
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Publication date : 30 November 2021
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Author : Yishai Sarid
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Language : English
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Translator : Yardenne Greenspan
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'A brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the present' The New York Times

Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, the unnamed narrator of The Memory Monster recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination, guiding tours through the death camps. The job becomes a mission, and then a dangerous obsession.With great perspicuity and the bitterest black humour, The Memory Monster confronts difficult questions that are all too relevant to Israel and the world today: How do we process human brutality? What makes us choose sides in conflict? And how do we honour the suffering of our forebears without becoming consumed by it?