The Lost; A Search for Six of Six Million

New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2006. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Matt Mendelsohn (Photographer). [10], 512, [6] pages. Illustrations. Genealogy. Inscribed and dated by author on title page. Daniel Mendelsohn (born 16 April 1960) is an American memoirist, essayist, critic, columnist, and translator. Mendelsohn after completing his Ph.D., he moved to New York City and began writing full-time. Since then his review-essays on books, films, theater and television have appeared frequently in a number of major publications, most often in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Between 2000 and 2002 he was the weekly book critic for New York Magazine, and between 1996 and 2006 his reviews appeared frequently in The New York Times Book Review, where, from 2013 to 2014, he was also a columnist for the "Bookends" page. Mendelsohn has been the recipient of numerous prizes and honors both in the United States and abroad. These include the American Academy of Arts and Letters Harold D. Vursell Memorial Prize (2014); the American Philological Association President's Award for service to the Classics (2014); the George Jean Nathan Prize (2002); and the National Book Critics Circle Award Citation for Excellence (2000). Currently, he holds the Charles Ranlett Flint Chair in Humanities at Bard College. The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust-an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939 and tantalized by fragmentary tales of a terrible betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives' fates. That quest eventually takes him to a dozen countries on four continents, and forces him to confront the wrenching discrepancies between the histories we live and the stories we tell. And it leads him, finally, back to the small Ukrainian town where his family's story began, and where the solution to a decades-old mystery awaits him. The Lost has received critical acclaim as a new perspective on Holocaust remembrance. It was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Prix Médicis in France, and it was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper History Prize in the UK. An international bestseller, The Lost has been translated into several languages, including French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, German, Turkish, and Hebrew.