# Memory - Paperback

by **Philippe Grimbert** (Author)

Twenty 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.

A colossal bestseller in Europe, _Memory_ is 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.

_The day after my fifteenth birthday, I finally learned what I had always known...._

Growing 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.

A spare, erotic, and ultimately cathartic narrative, _Memory_ is a mesmerizing tale of coming to terms with one's shameful past through the unraveling of a series of dark desires.

**Number of Pages:** 176

**Dimensions:** 0.5 x 6.8 x 5 IN

**Publication Date:** December 30, 2008

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- **Price:** 12.99 USD
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