Diary of the Fall
by Michel Laub
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Pub Date Apr 03 2014 | Archive Date May 31 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
‘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, filling notebook after notebook with the false memories of someone desperate to forget.
Beautiful and brave, Michel Laub’s novel asks the most basic – and yet most complex – questions about history and identity, exploring what stories we choose to tell about ourselves and how we become the people we are.
Michel Laub's next book, A Poison Apple, will be published on 6th July 2017.
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition - available for readers worldwide excluding US and PH
Advance Praise
Beauty
resides, almost discreetly, in the poetic plot [and] inviting, flowing
prose ... Therein lies Laub's art, a style that seems to touch things
without leaving a mark, without oppressing or disfiguring what is
written - Vox
An absolutely impeccable writer - nomínimo
The best Brazilian writer of the new generation - Terra Magazine
As in Milton Hatoum, in Michel Laub there is always the device of a subtle touch at the most dramatic moments - Estado de S. Paulo
I have already found a contender for my book of 2014 - Herald
Marketing Plan
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 chosen as one of Granta's 'Best of Young Brazilian Novelists' in 2012.
Diary of the Fall
is his fifth novel, and his most accomplished. Michel Laub has been the
winner of the Brasilia Award, the Bravo!/Bradesco Prize and the Erico
Verissimo Award, and this book received huge media coverage in Brazil,
which brought the author to the attention of a wider readership.
Lies somewhere between Schlink's The Reader, Julian Barnes' Sense of an Ending, Art Spiegelman's Maus and Ian McEwan's Atonement.
Adam
Thirlwell on Michel's story 'Animals': 'It's very delicate and very
brutal ... It makes me want to read everything Michel Laub has written.'
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781448156276 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
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