WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/579021

The memory artists

Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Best Novel Noel Burun has synesthesia and hypermnesia: he sees words in vibrant explosions of colors and shapes, which collide and commingle to form a memory so bitingly perfect that he can remember everything, from the 1001 stories of The Arabian Nights to the color of his bib as a toddler. But for all his mnemonic abilities, he is confronted every day with a reality that is as sad as it is ironic: his beloved mother, Stella, is stricken with Alzheimer's disease, her memory slowly slipping into the quicksands of oblivion. The Memory Artists follows Noel, helped by a motley cast of friends, on his quest to find a cure for his mother's affliction. The results are at the same time darkly funny, quirkily inventive, and very moving. Alternating between third-person narratives and the diaries of Noel and Stella, Jeffrey Moore weaves a story filled with fantastic characters and a touch of suspense that gets at the very heart of what it means to remember and forget, and that is a testament to the uplifting power of family and friendship.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

alternateName

http://schema.org/alternateName

  • "Memory artists"@tr
  • "Memory artist"@it

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "Ein Mann, der kaum etwas vergessen kann, eine Frau, die fast alles vergessen hat - ein ebenso berückender wie ausdrucksstarker Roman über das Geheimnis von Identität, Gedächtnis und Erinnerung."
  • "Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Best Novel Noel Burun has synesthesia and hypermnesia: he sees words in vibrant explosions of colors and shapes, which collide and commingle to form a memory so bitingly perfect that he can remember everything, from the 1001 stories of The Arabian Nights to the color of his bib as a toddler. But for all his mnemonic abilities, he is confronted every day with a reality that is as sad as it is ironic: his beloved mother, Stella, is stricken with Alzheimer's disease, her memory slowly slipping into the quicksands of oblivion. The Memory Artists follows Noel, helped by a motley cast of friends, on his quest to find a cure for his mother's affliction. The results are at the same time darkly funny, quirkily inventive, and very moving. Alternating between third-person narratives and the diaries of Noel and Stella, Jeffrey Moore weaves a story filled with fantastic characters and a touch of suspense that gets at the very heart of what it means to remember and forget, and that is a testament to the uplifting power of family and friendship."@en
  • "Een hoogbegaafde jongeman zoekt met hulp van zijn dito vrienden op onconventionele wijze naar een Alzheimermedicijn voor zijn moeder."
  • "Noël Burun souffre d'une synesthésie doublée d'hypermnésie : il voit les mots en couleurs tout en étant doué d'une mémoire quasi-photographique. Il se rappelle presque de tout ce qu'il a vécu depuis sa naissance. Ce qui le laisse souvent confus. D'autant que sa mère, Stella, est atteinte de la maladie d'Alzheimer. Noël fait appel au Dr Vorta, un ami de son père, pour tenter de la sauver."
  • ""Noel Burun has synesthesia and hypermnesia: he sees words in vibrant explosions of colors and shapes, which collide and commingle to form a memory so bitingly perfect that he can remember everything, from the 1001 stories of The Arabian Nights to the color of his bib as a toddler. But for all his mnemonic abilities, he is confronted every day with a reality that is as sad as it is ironic: his beloved mother, Stella, is stricken with Alzheimer's disease, her memory slowly slipping into the quicksands of oblivion. The Memory Artists follows Noel, helped by a motley cast of friends, on his quest to find a cure for his mother's affliction. The results are at the same time darkly funny, quirkily inventive, and very moving. Alternating between third-person narratives and the diaries of Noel and Stella, Jeffrey Moore weaves a story filled with fantastic characters and a touch of suspense that gets at the very heart of what it means to remember and forget, and that is a testament to the uplifting power of family and friendship."--Publisher's description."
  • "Noel Burun has hypermnesia and synaesthesia: his memory is unrelentingly exact, and when people speak he sees their words as vibrant colours, often leaving him befuddled and bewildered. His mother, Stella, on the other hand, is slowly sinking into the quicksand of Alzheimer's. A man who remembers too much and a woman who remembers too little - both struggle to make sense of their worlds."

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Roman psychologique"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Roman familial"
  • "Psychological fiction"

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "Les artistes de la mémoire : roman"
  • "Los artistas de la memoria"@es
  • "The memory artists"
  • "The memory artists"@en
  • "Gli artisti della memoria"@it
  • "Gli artisti della memoria"
  • "The Memory artists"@en
  • "Die Gedächtniskünstler Roman"
  • "De geheugenkunstenaars"
  • "Huskekunstnerne : roman"
  • "Huskekunstnerne : roman"@da
  • "Los Artistas de la memoria"
  • "The memory artist"
  • "Les artistes de la mémoire roman"
  • "Die Gedächtniskünstler : Roman"
  • "Sinestezya"@tr
  • "Sinestezya = The memory artists"
  • "Los artistas de la memoria : una novela sobre olvidarlo todo y no poder olvidar nada"
  • "Los artistas de la memoria : una novela sobre olvidarlo todo y no poder olvidar nada"@es

workExample

http://schema.org/workExample