Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Prøv nu
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036
Cover for The Memory Monster

The Memory Monster

5 Bedømmelse

4.4

Varighed
4T 25M
Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Romaner

Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, our unnamed narrator recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland during World War II and guides tours through the sites for students and visiting dignitaries. He hungrily devours every detail of life and death in the camps and takes pride in being able to recreate for his audience the excruciating last moments of the victims' lives.

The job becomes a mission, and then an obsession. Spending so much time immersed in death, his connections with the living begin to deteriorate. He resents the students lost in their iPhones, singing sentimental songs, not expressing sufficient outrage at the genocide committed by the Nazis. In fact, he even begins to detect, in the students as well as himself, a hint of admiration for the murderers—their efficiency, audacity, and determination.

With the perspicuity of Kafka's The Trial and the obsessions of Delillo's White Noise, The Memory Monster confronts difficult questions that are all too relevant to Israel and the world today: How do we process human brutality? What makes us choose sides in conflict? And how do we honor the memory of horror without becoming consumed by it?

© 2021 Tantor Media (Lydbog): 9781666115321

Oversættere: Yardenne Greenspan

Udgivelsesdato

Lydbog: 1. juni 2021

Andre kan også lide...

  1. Mother for Dinner
    Mother for Dinner Shalom Auslander
  2. Doxology: A Novel
    Doxology: A Novel Nell Zink
  3. The Best American Short Stories 2022
    The Best American Short Stories 2022 Andrew Sean Greer
  4. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
    People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present Dara Horn
  5. Diary of a Film
    Diary of a Film Niven Govinden
  6. Men Don't Cry
    Men Don't Cry Faiza Guene
  7. 2 A.M. in Little America
    2 A.M. in Little America Ken Kalfus
  8. The Best American Short Stories 2023
    The Best American Short Stories 2023 Min Jin Lee
  9. Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
    Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? Dave Eggers
  10. The Ghetto Within: A Novel
    The Ghetto Within: A Novel Santiago H. Amigorena
  11. Man of My Time
    Man of My Time Dalia Sofer
  12. The Vixen: A Novel
    The Vixen: A Novel Francine Prose
  13. A Book of American Martyrs: A Novel
    A Book of American Martyrs: A Novel Joyce Carol Oates
  14. The Hotel Tito: A Novel
    The Hotel Tito: A Novel Ivana Bodrožić
  15. I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
    I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land Alaina E. Roberts
  16. Homage to Barcelona
    Homage to Barcelona Colm Tóibín
  17. A Lonely Man
    A Lonely Man Chris Power
  18. The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love and the Books That Changed Their Lives: he Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives
    The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love and the Books That Changed Their Lives: he Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives Nancy Pearl
  19. Silence is My Mother Tongue
    Silence is My Mother Tongue Sulaiman Addonia
  20. The Best American Short Stories 2024
    The Best American Short Stories 2024 Lauren Groff
  21. Oreo
    Oreo Fran Ross
  22. We, The Survivors
    We, The Survivors Tash Aw
  23. Tiger Work
    Tiger Work Ben Okri
  24. Dance of the Jakaranda
    Dance of the Jakaranda Peter Kimani
  25. On Juneteenth
    On Juneteenth Annette Gordon-Reed
  26. The (Other) You: Stories
    The (Other) You: Stories Joyce Carol Oates
  27. A Gate at the Stairs: A Novel
    A Gate at the Stairs: A Novel Lorrie Moore
  28. The Twilight Zone: A Novel
    The Twilight Zone: A Novel Nona Fernandez
  29. Sugar Street: A Novel
    Sugar Street: A Novel Jonathan Dee
  30. Moonglow: A Novel
    Moonglow: A Novel Michael Chabon
  31. Hotel Honolulu
    Hotel Honolulu Paul Theroux
  32. Then the Fish Swallowed Him: A Novel
    Then the Fish Swallowed Him: A Novel Amir Ahmadi Arian
  33. America's Dream: A Novel
    America's Dream: A Novel Esmeralda Santiago
  34. The Last Immigrant
    The Last Immigrant Lau Siew Mei
  35. A Hologram for the King "International Edition"
    A Hologram for the King "International Edition" Dave Eggers
  36. The Pages
    The Pages Hugo Hamilton
  37. Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories
    Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories Deborah Eisenberg
  38. All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
    All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories Edward P. Jones
  39. Everything the Light Touches: A Novel
    Everything the Light Touches: A Novel Janice Pariat
  40. Plowing the Dark
    Plowing the Dark Richard Powers
  41. The New Earth: A Novel
    The New Earth: A Novel Jess Row
  42. Dogs at the Perimeter
    Dogs at the Perimeter Madeleine Thien

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Start tilbuddet

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis