The Lost: The Search for Six of Six Million | 
pickDaniel Mendelsohn starts a search for his six relatives who were killed in Europe during the WWII. He embarks on a 5 years long journey that takes him to Israel, Poland, Ukraine, Sweden and Danemark where he meets witnesses and people who once knew his relatives. At the end he suceeds to reconstruct the final years of their lives. An extraordinary story about family, rememberance and Holocaust.
pick? A non-linear narrative (à la the Ancient Greek style of storytelling) about the author‘s search for 6 relatives who were “killed by the Nazis.” Combining Biblical exegesis, family folklore, the worldwide search for facts, and the issues of interpretation, this bogs down a little under its own weight in the middle but has a devastating post script not found in earlier versions of the book. Bronson Pinchot performs with intelligence and emotion.
🎧 In his essay in the New Yorker, Daniel Mendelsohn writes of the modern dilemma of interpreting the Aeneid, a Classic text of Roman Imperialist sensibilities; but also posits that perhaps the story is really of that of a survivor who has born witness to war‘s excesses not unlike the survivors he interviewed for ‘The Lost.‘
(📷: Screenshot of Audm app (Audm is a aggregator of journalistic pieces and provides audio as well))
🎧 I started this audiobook a couple of days ago and wasn‘t sure I was going to continue: The opening chapter‘s narrative rambles and wanders. But then today, in the second chapter, Mendelsohn cleverly talks about non-linear narrative and so now I‘m just rolling with it and Bronson Pinchot‘s expert delivery.
Thus is a NF book about the author‘s search for six relatives who died during the Holocaust.
pickI‘ve been meaning to read this book for years, and I wish I hadn‘t waited so long! Beautifully written and incredibly researched! It had me in tears multiple times, especially when I thought about all of the family members who are also “lost” in time from the #Shoah . Definitely recommended! This was read for #lrc - a book over 600 pages (659 pages). #holocaust
This was a bit too much for me, I have to put it down and fix my reading self 🙃 maybe I'll go back to it sometime, but it is very intense. A true story of a man researching what happened to some of his relatives killed in the Holocaust.
