A powerful and heartbreaking novel about love, guilt and memory - and the stories we choose to tell about ourselves and each other
Michel Laub was born in Porto Alegre and currently lives in
Sao Paulo. He is a writer and journalist, and was named one of
Granta's twenty 'Best of Young Brazilian Novelists'.
Diary of the Fall, which received the Brasilia Award, was
his first novel to appear in English. It won the Jewish
Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize 2015 and was shortlisted for the
International Dublin Literary Award 2016.
Extraordinary... In my world, this novel is already a
classic -- Karl Ove Knausgaard
A powerful exploration of memory and guilt * Guardian *
A work of immense incantatory power -- Neel Mukherjee * Literary
Review *
Astonishingly powerful ... Diary of a Fall may well emerge
as one of the finest novels published in English this year --
Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
A gripping, thoughtful novel... Laub beautifully retrieves
the tragedy of the holocaust from its scholarship, politics and
deniers, cutting to the bone of human life, its longings and
limitations -- Tabish Khair * Independent *
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