The memory monster
(Book - Regular Print)

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Published
Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2020.
Edition
First Restless Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
169 pages ; 19 cm
Status
Prescott Public Library - FIC - Fiction Books
SARID, YISHAI
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Published
Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2020.
Format
Book - Regular Print
Edition
First Restless Books hardcover edition.
Language
English

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General Note
"First published as Mifletzet ha-zikaron by Am Oved, Tel Aviv, 2017"--Title page verso.
Description
"The English-language debut of celebrated Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid is a fierce and harrowing tale of reckoning with the horror of the Holocaust, and how memory and the effort to preserve it can become an all-consuming monster. The narrator of Yishai Sarid's powerful novel is a young, initially reluctant Holocaust scholar working at Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. A diligent historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland during World War II, and guides tours through the camps for students and visiting dignitaries. He hungrily devours every detail of life and death in the camps and takes pride in being able to recreate for his audience the excruciating last moments of the victims' lives, and the process by which enslaved Jews were forced to dispose of the remains. The job becomes a mission, and then an addiction. Spending so much time immersed in death, his connections with the living begin to deteriorate. He resents the students lost in their iPhones, singing sentimental songs, not expressing sufficient outrage at the mass murder committed by the Germans. In fact, he even begins to detect, in the students as well as himself, a hint of admiration for the murderers--their efficiency, audacity, and determination. Force is the only way to resist force, he comes to think, and one must be prepared to kill."--Provided by publisher.
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Our narrator is a young, initially reluctant Holocaust scholar working at Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. A diligent historian, he becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland during World War II, and guides tours through the camps for students and visiting dignitaries. He takes pride in being able to recreate for his audience the excruciating last moments of the victims' lives, and the process by which enslaved Jews were forced to dispose of the remains. Spending so much time immersed in death, his connections with the living begin to deteriorate. He begins to detect, in the students as well as himself, a hint of admiration for the murderers-- their efficiency, audacity, and determination. -- adapted from jacket
Language
In English. Translated from the Hebrew.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Sarid, Y., & Greenspan, Y. (2020). The memory monster (First Restless Books hardcover edition.). Restless Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Sarid, Yishay, 1965- and Yardenne, Greenspan. 2020. The Memory Monster. Restless Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Sarid, Yishay, 1965- and Yardenne, Greenspan. The Memory Monster Restless Books, 2020.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Sarid, Yishay, and Yardenne Greenspan. The Memory Monster First Restless Books hardcover edition., Restless Books, 2020.

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