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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. An impossible book to describe but magnificent nevertheless. Grossman's writing is poetical, obtuse, old fashioned and modern all in one novel. Divided into 4 distinct sections with 4 correspondingly distinct voices, See Under: LOVE, follows the life of a child born to Holocaust survivors from childhood into adulthood. It is a blend of magical realism, naturalism, children's stories and even the redemptive nature of getting to know one's enemy. It defies all categorization and description and probably needs to be read at least 3 or 4 times to truly appreciate all the nuance. ( )no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0312420692, Paperback)In this powerful novel by one of Israel’s most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust survivors, grows up in the shadow of his parents’ history. Determined to exorcise the Nazi “beast” from their shattered lives and prepare for a second holocaust he knows is coming, 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.” Grossman’s masterly fusing of vision, thought, and emotion make See Under: Love a luminously imaginative and profoundly affecting work. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:54 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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