Description
A young Israeli writer—raised in the shadow of Holocaust survival yet not himself a survivor—sets out to understand the “Nazi Beast” that haunts his family’s language, silences, and love. Spanning late-1950s Jerusalem, the early 1980s, and the shifting landscapes of wartime Europe and the death camps, the novel follows a series of imaginative, literary attempts to reconstruct what cannot be fully told. Through encounters with a grandfather who survives in uncanny ways and the figure of Bruno, Grossman explores how memory is inherited, how storytelling can both wound and protect, and how identity is shaped by what one is allowed—or not allowed—to know. Blending lyrical realism with bold metafictional invention, this landmark work recontextualizes Holocaust remembrance through the power and limits of language itself.
Available Editions
paperback
Vintage Books USA
Published Jan 1, 2010
468 pages
ISBN: 9780099541592
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Details
First Published
2010
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for See Under Love by David Grossman.