House of Remembering and Forgetting

Filip David

2017-11 · Peter Owen Publishers

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Young Albert Weiss was spared the horrors of Auschwitz when his parents threw him and his brother from the transport train. Years later, with the help of other survivors of the holocaust, he explores the myriad ways of confronting not just the evil that robbed him of his childhood, but the guilt he feels for having lost his brother on that wintry night.Mosaic, non-linear and semi-autobiographical, this book is reminiscent in style of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and in theme of the works of Primo Levi. In documenting the stories of child survivors, it is a moving and necessary addition to the literature of the Holocaust.

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Filip David is one of Serbia's most prolific writers. Born to a Jewish family during the Holocaust, his work often critically explores the nature of evil. Christina Pribicevic-Zoric's notable translations include Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars and Zlata Filipovic's Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo.