{"product_id":"memory","title":"Memory: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrimbert, Philippe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths from a balcony, Philippe Grimbert has written a gripping novel about the hidden memories that dominated their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA colossal bestseller in Europe, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMemory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis the story of a family haunted by the secret of their past: an illicit love affair, a lost child, and a devastating betrayal dating back to the Second World War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe day after my fifteenth birthday, I finally learned what I had always known....\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrowing up in postwar Paris as the sickly only child of glamorous athletic parents, the narrator invents for himself a make-believe older brother, stronger and more brilliant than he can ever be. It is only when the boy begins talking to an old family friend that he comes to realize that his imaginary sibling had a real predecessor: a half brother whose death in the concentration camps is part of a buried family secret that he was intended never to uncover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA spare, erotic, and ultimately cathartic narrative, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMemory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis a mesmerizing tale of coming to terms with one's shameful past through the unraveling of a series of dark desires.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303456612386,"sku":"","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/81uu9IpKsCL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1707500717","url":"https:\/\/vaholocaust.myshopify.com\/products\/memory","provider":"Virginia Holocaust Museum Shop \u0026 Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}