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Review: Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub

Posted May 10, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub Published by Random House on April 3, 2014 Genres: Fiction Pages: 192 Format: E-Book Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads ‘I often dreamed about the moment of the fall, a silence that lasted a second, possibly two, a room full of sixty people and no one making a sound, as if everyone were waiting for my classmate to cry out … but he lay on the ground with his eyes closed’ A schoolboy prank goes horribly wrong, and a thirteen-year-old boy is left injured. Years later, one of the classmates relives the episode as he tries to come to terms with his demons. Diary of the Fall is the story of three generations: a man examining the mistakes of his past, and his struggle for forgiveness; a father with Alzheimer’s, for whom recording every memory has become an obsession; and a grandfather who survived Auschwitz, […]