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Informationen zum Autor Daniel Mendelsohn is a prize-winning writer and critic. His books include the international best seller The Lost, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and many others; a memoir, The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; a translation, with commentary, of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; and two collections of essays. He lives in the Hudson Valley of New York. Klappentext A deeply emotional odyssey of one man's search to find out what happened to 6 members of his family wiped out during the Holocaust, which transforms into a profound meditation on our fragile hold on the past. It was a bestseller in the US and has received an extraordinary amount of ecstatic review and feature coverage. 'A remarkable achievement.' Joyce Carol Oates