Philippe Grimbert is a psychoanalyst. He is the author of several works of nonfiction and a novel, Paul's Little Dress. He lives in Paris.
"'Although an only child, for many years I had a brother.' So
begins this spare, remarkable novel, which reads as easily as a
children's tale, yet packs a grown-up punch." -- Lisa Appignanesi,
The Independent (U.K.)
"[Memory] is a spare, haunting, brilliantly poised evocation of the
way experiences of war, pain, and shame, even when unspoken,
percolate through the family to shape and distort new generations."
-- The Independent
"A slim little book -- quick, but heavy with terror. [Memory] is
marvel of a book, rendered in a fluid and flexible translation from
the French by Polly McLean, and its deepest secret of all is that
fact and fiction may not be rivals but long-lost brothers." --
Financial Times
"A spare, minimally told story, which resonates with historical and
personal meaning." -- Jewish Chronicle
"A splendid book that gives the unspeakable written form." -- Le
Monde
"Everything about it -- style, tone, sensibility -- is just as it
should be. Everything about it -- its structure, and the path it
forges toward literary truth -- commands respect." -- L'Express
"His allusive, spare, elliptical prose reproduces the feeling of
hidden nightmares, and evokes the uncertainty of reconstructing
one's life anew with only partial information -- a process
undergone by Philippe within the story, and by the author in
writing the book. The result is both a poignant contribution to
Holocaust literature and the tragic tale of a couple whose personal
history was, as Grimbert puts it, 'intertwined with History with a
capital H.'" -- Nextbook
"Memorable" -- Kirkus Reviews
"Powerful and gripping" -- Publishers Weekly
"The comfort we get from the cold raw truths -- death and loss and
longing -- is that life itself is capable of small beauties.
Grimbert captures this with style, depth and grace. Memory is a
stunning book which simultaneously manages to widen our sense of
history and story-telling." -- Colum McCann, author of Zoli and
Dancer
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