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Original Title:	The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
ISBN:	0060542977 (ISBN13: 9780060542979)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Prix Médicis Etranger (2007), National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2006), Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης ΕΚΕΜΕΛ for Αγγλόφωνη Λογοτεχνία (2011), LIRE Meilleur Livre de l' Année (2007)

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In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history.

The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust—an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939 and tantalized by fragmentary tales of a terrible betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives' fates. That quest eventually takes him to a dozen countries on four continents and forces him to confront the wrenching discrepancies between the histories we live and the stories we tell. And it leads him, finally, back to the small Ukrainian town where his family's story began, and where the solution to a decades-old mystery awaits him.

Deftly moving between past and present, interweaving a world-wandering odyssey with childhood memories of a now-lost generation of immigrant Jews and provocative ruminations on biblical texts and Jewish history, The Lost transforms the story of one family into a profound, morally searching meditation on our fragile hold on the past. Deeply personal, grippingly suspenseful, and beautifully written, this literary tour de force illuminates all that is lost, and found, in the passage of time.

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Depuis qu’il est enfant, Daniel Mendelsohn sait que son grand-oncle Shmiel, sa femme et leurs quatre filles ont été tués, quelque part dans l’est de la Pologne, en 1941. Comment, quand, où exactement ? Nul ne peut lui en dire plus. Et puis il découvre ces lettres désespérées écrites en 1939 par Shmiel à son frère, installé en Amérique, des lettres pressant sa famille de les aider à partir, des lettres demeurées sans réponse... Parce qu’il a voulu savoir ce qui s’est passé, parce qu’il a voulu donner un visage à ces six disparus, Daniel Mendelsohn est parti sur leurs traces, rencontrant, année après année, des témoins épars dans une douzaine de pays. Cette quête, il en a fait un livre, puzzle vertigineux, roman policier haletant, plongée dans l’Histoire et l’oubli – un chef-d’œuvre.

« Daniel Mendelsohn a écrit une œuvre puissamment émouvante sur le passé " ; perdu " ; d’une famille, qui rappelle à la fois l’opulence des œuvres en prose de Proust et les textes elliptiques de W.G. Sebald. Une réussite exceptionnelle. » Joyce Carol Oates
« Les Disparus est une bouleversante enquête de détective à part entière, doublée d’un questionnement sur les interventions énigmatiques de Dieu dans les affaires humaines, et approfondie par une réflexion sur la part d’inéluctable et d’incompréhensible que le hasard introduit dans l’Histoire. » John Maxwell Cœtzee
« Entre épopée et intimité, méditation et suspense, tragédie et hilarité, Les Disparus est un livre merveilleux. » Jonathan Safran Fœr « Mendelsohn réussit à assembler un tableau immensément humain dans lequel chaque témoin a un visage et chaque visage une histoire et un destin. » Elie Wiesel

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Title	:	The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Author	:	Daniel Mendelsohn
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 512 pages
Published	:	September 19th 2006 by Harper (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. World War II. Holocaust. Autobiography. Memoir. War. Biography

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Compelling story, but the writing..... was overwrought and needed incisive editing. Only the story, the mystery, and the need to know what lay at the end of the journey kept me reading.

The best thing I read last year. It took me many months to finish this book as I would get overwhelmed by the detail, but I always felt compelled to pick it back up after a breather and continue. This book made the holocaust real for me in a way nothing else, including the Washington D.C museum, has. Brilliant the way Mendelhsson addresses the vast scale of the holocaust while at the same time narrowing it down to individual people who are not heroes or villians, but a regular family like anyone

A beautifully written, evocative book. Dense, full of tangents, and telling the story of several generations across several continents.Mendelsohn is the self-appointed family historian who, after an entire childhood of listening to his grandfather's stories, decides to find out what happened to the family members who were left out - his grandfather's brother, his wife, and their four daughters, who were "killed by the Nazis". With little more to go on (when he begins his search, he was unsure

This is one of those books that I felt initially my iq wasn't high enough to read. The author's style of writing is somewhat confusing and a little difficult to get used to. I persevered, because the subject matter was intriguing to me, and I'm glad I did! About a third of the way through the book, I realized I was completely engrossed. It's a fascinating story of the author's determination to find the story of his family's fate during the Holocaust, and even though I thought I knew a lot about

The two teenage girls at the right in the back row in this picture are my paternal grandmother and her sister. Their parents and grandfather are in the front row. The picture was taken around 1900. A few years later, my grandmother, rebellious and politically inclined, left the small town in Poland and came, alone, to the United States. She was one of the very few members of her family to escape the Holocaust. Like many American Jews, I don't know precisely what happened to my relatives. Daniel

There may just be a vertical hierarchy in our popular understanding of the Holocaust. At the top, however uneasy, are the Survivors: it is through their testimony that we know to never forget. Their is also a measure of merit in having outwitted or simply survived the minatory machinations of the Nazis. below them are the victims, particularly present when the doltish ask "why they went like sheep, why they didnt fight back, why they didnt heed the signs in the 1930s?" Below that mound of

I read this twice in the last year. It has an interesting juxtaposition of biblical and philosophical argumentation with the author's experiences seeking information about his relatives who were lost in the holocaust in Poland. Thus, I learned a lot about Jewish culture and thought while I read, as well as being able to relate to the search. I particularly thought of this book in the summer of 2012, when my brother and I found the grave marker of a relative in a tiny, ancient cemetery in the