{"product_id":"the-lost-a-search-for-six-of-six-million-isbn-9780063251328","title":"The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book • Winner of the National Jewish Book Award • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • A \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Book Prize Finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, a testimony to the enduring power of the ancient archetypes that haunt one Jewish family and the greater human family, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost\u003c\/em\u003e is as complex and rich with meaning and story as the past it seeks to illuminate. A beautiful book, beautifully written.”—Michael Chabon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lost\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeftly moving between past and present, interweaving a world-wandering odyssey with childhood memories of a now-lost generation of immigrant Jews and provocative ruminations on biblical texts and Jewish history, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost\u003c\/em\u003e transforms the story of one family into a profound, morally searching meditation on our fragile hold on the past. Deeply personal, grippingly suspenseful, and beautifully written, this literary tour de force illuminates all that is lost, and found, in the passage of time.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Mendelsohn, a classicist, creates a stunning \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e here, an epic world-wandering.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGarry Wills\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Daniel Mendelsohn has written a powerfully moving work of memoirist appropriation of a “lost” family past in tones reminiscent of the richly expansive prose works of Proust and the elusive texts of W.G. Sebald—a remarkable achievement.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoyce Carol Oates\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Epic and personal, meditative and suspenseful, tragic and at times hilarious, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Safran Foer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, a testimony to the enduring power of the ancient archetypes that haunt one Jewish family and the greater human family, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost\u003c\/em\u003e is as complex and rich with meaning and story as the past it seeks to illuminate. A beautiful book, beautifully written.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Chabon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Moving. . . . Proves that there are limitless ways of looking at that most inexplicable of human moments.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A stunning memoir. . . . Beautiful and powerfully moving. . . . As suspenseful as a detective thriller, and as difficult to put down. . . . . What makes \u003cem\u003eThe Lost\u003c\/em\u003e so extraordinary is how loving it is.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An excellent memoir. . . . Essentially a detective story, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost\u003c\/em\u003e winds up describing far more than Mendelsohn’s relatives: It brings to life the struggle of an entire generation.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A beautiful book, beautifully written.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Chabon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A stirring detective work, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost\u003c\/em\u003e is … deepened by reflections on the inescapable part that chance plays in history.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJ. M. Coetzee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Daniel Mendelsohn has written a powerfully moving work of a “lost” family past. . . . A remarkable achievement.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoyce Carol Oates\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mendelsohn, a classicist, creates a stunning \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e here, an epic world-wandering.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHome \u0026amp; Garden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A remarkable personal narrative -- rigorous in its search for truth, at once tender and exacting. It is deeply moving, often distressing, sometimes funny. . . . Mendelsohn succeeds in assembling an immensely human tableau in which each witness has a face and each face a story and destiny.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElie Wiesel, Washington Post Book World (front cover)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A masterpiece. . . . Daniel Mendelsohn is an astonishing writer. . . . This book for better or worse makes the Holocaust new again.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Jerusalem Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Engaging and poignant. . . . Despite its considerable length, The Lost doesn’t seem to long, thanks to the author’s fine-tuned sense of drama and deft prose style. . . . Harrowing, absorbing, and supremely intelligent, the book amounts to an eloquent Kaddish, a prayer for the dead of Bolechow.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Stunning. . . . A singular achievement, a work of major significance and pummeling impact.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSamuel G. Freedman, Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Riveting. . . . Recalls the recent work of Jonathan Franzen or early Joan Didion. . . . A brilliant, steely-eyed personal history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Extraordinary. . . . Mr. Mendelsohn, an evocative, ruminative writer, brings to life the vanished world not just of prewar Poland but also of his childhood and his extended family.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Grimes, The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Lost\u003c\/em\u003e is the most gripping, the most amazing true story I have read in years. . . . Enthralling. . . . An immensely moving and beautifully written book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Simic, The New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A stunning achievement. . . . Extraordinary.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hugely ambitious yet intensely engaging. . . . Absorbing, novelistic. . . . Thought-provoking and original. . . . This mystery takes on a powerfully suspenseful momentum. . . . Mendelsohn draws us more deeply into the experience of the larger catastrophe than we might have thought possible. . . . The result is a new way of telling a story we thought we knew.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hugely ambitious yet intensely engaging. . . . Absorbing, novelistic. . . . Thought-provoking and original.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Riveting. . . . The author narrates masterfully. . . . Poignant and heart-rending. . . . A memorable, insightful book about what can be tragically lost -- and ultimately, with persistence, found.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Lost\u003c\/em\u003e is a sensitively written book that constantly asks itself the most difficult questions about history and memory.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookForum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Lost\u003c\/em\u003e is a sensitively written book that constantly asks itself the most difficult questions about history and memory.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookForum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A magnificent and deeply wise book. . . . Mesmerizing. . . . Mendelsohn’s accomplishment is enormous.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A grand book, an ambitious undertaking fully realized.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889779699941,"sku":"NP9780063251328","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063251328.jpg?v=1730231881","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-lost-a-search-for-six-of-six-million-isbn-9780063251328","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}