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See Under Love

Author: David Grossman and Betsy Rosenberg   Series: Picador

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Innovative and daring retelling of the horrors of Jewish history, likened to The Tin Drum and One Hundred Years of Solitude

Momik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. But through the stories his great-uncle tells him-the same stories he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp-Momik, too, becomes "infected with humanity."

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Innovative and daring retelling of the horrors of Jewish history, likened to The Tin Drum and One Hundred Years of Solitude

Momik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. But through the stories his great-uncle tells him-the same stories he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp-Momik, too, becomes "infected with humanity."

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Innovative and daring retelling of the horrors of Jewish history, likened to The Tin Drum and One Hundred Years of SolitudeMomik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. No-one will explain to him what life was like 'Over There' or what the 'Nazi Beast' is. His 9-year-old mind imagines a Nazi Beast hiding in the cellar, waiting to feed on Jews. Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment. But through the stories his great-uncle tells him-the same stories he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp-Momik, too, becomes "infected with humanity."See Under- Love is a luminously imaginative and profoundly affecting work.

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“One of the most ambitious, generous, beautiful, indispensable books I've been fortunate enough to read”

-- Jonathan Safran Foer Guardian
See Under: Loveis one of the most disturbing novels I've ever read...When I was already well into it, I'd circle it warily before picking it up again . . . then fall instantly under its spell, for it is wickedly readable -- Edmund White
This novel is so innovative, yet at the same time so readable, that I can only say that it gives the lie to that critical cliche. It is a tour de force of pure storytelling, and a demonstration of both the need for story and the limits of all particular stories. I consider it a triumph Guardian

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About the Author

David Grossman is the bestselling author of numerous works, which have been translated into thirty-six languages. His novel, A Horse Walks into a Bar, was awarded the International Man Booker Prize 2017. Grossman is also the recipient of the French Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the 2010 Frankfurt Peace Prize.

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'Grossman makes something dazzling and imaginative in engaging head-on with the worst horrors of the twentieth century... It is a tour de force of pure storytelling' Guardian Momik is the only child of two survivors seeking to ignore the past and scrape together a new life in Israel. No-one will explain to him what the 'Nazi Beast' is or what life was like 'Over There'. Momik imagines a Nazi Beast hiding in the cellar, waiting to feed on Jews, and increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment. But through the stories his great-uncle tells him - the same stories he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp - Momik becomes learns about love and becomes "infected with humanity". 'Wickedly readable. It crackles with sparks of artistic invention' Edmund White

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing | Vintage Classics
Published
2nd September 2010
Pages
480
ISBN
9780099541592

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