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"Twenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths from a balcony, Philippe Grimbert has written a gripping novel about the hidden memories that dominated their lives. A colossal bestseller in Europe, Memory is the story of a family haunted by the secret of their past: an illicit love affair, a lost child, and a devastating betrayal dating back to the Second World War. The day after my fifteenth birthday, I finally learned what I had always known ... Growing up in postwar Paris as the sickly only child of glamorous athletic parents, the narrator invents for himself a make-believe older brother, stronger and more brilliant than he can ever be. It is only when the boy begins talking to an old family friend that he comes to realize that his imaginary sibling had a real predecessor: a half brother whose death in the concentration camps is part of a buried family secret that he was intended never to uncover. A spare, erotic, and ultimately cathartic narrative, Memory is a mesmerizing tale of coming to terms with one's shameful past through the unraveling of a series of dark desires."@en
"Au commencement était un frère imaginaire. Entouré de silence, ployant sous une culpabilité familiale, le narrateur éprouve le besoin de raconter un passé qu'il s'invente lisse et tranquille jusqu'à ce que Louise, vieille amie de ses parents, ne lui dise la vérité : ce frère a réellement existé avant de mourir dans les camps de concentration avec sa mère, Hannah, première épouse de son père."
"Growing up in postwar Paris as the sickly only child of glamorous athletic parents, the narrator invents for himself a make-believe older brother, stronger and more brilliant than he can ever be. It is only when the boy begins talking to an old family friend that he comes to realize that his imaginary sibling had a real predecessor: a half brother whose death in the concentration camps is part of a buried family secret that he was intended never to uncover. --from Publisher description."@en
"Secret tells the troubled story of a sickly boy who grows into an awareness of what he has always somehow known and yet was never told. The unspoken, as Grimbert evokes it, is a key actor in a child's life. Parental pasts, all the more so when covered up, haunt and distort the life of even the most beloved offspring. This is how wartime persecutors continue to triumph even after they have been defeated."
"Autobiografisch verslag van een familiedrama tijdens het nazi-bewind in Frankrijk."
"Growing up in postwar Paris as the sickly only child of glamorous athletic parents, the narrator invents for himself a make-believe older brother, stronger and more brilliant than he can ever be. It is only when the boy begins talking to an old family friend that he comes to realize that his imaginary sibling had a real predecessor: a half brother whose death in the concentration camps is part of a buried family secret that he was intended never to uncover."
"A sickly French child invents a make-believe older brother, only to learn from a family friend that he did, in fact, have an older half-brother who was killed in a concentration camp during World War Two, a fact which leads to darker family secrets."
"The novel follows the Jewish family of Maxime & Tania Nathan during the years leading up to the 2nd world war, the Nazi occupation, and the post-war years where the 2nd born son Philippe learns of his parents tragic past in during WW2 France. -- A 2007 film was directed and written by Claude Miller. The screenplay was based on this 2004 novel. -- Psychoanalyst Philippe Grimbert, b. 1948, "has to re-imagine almost all of [the story] -- he wasn't there, and neither was his main source, [an old family friend] Louise ... As if his parents' story wasn't enough, there's more, a coda of sorts -- though Grimbert can barely go there. There's a second family tragedy, one that a grown Grimbert is much closer to, but he can't do much more than describe what happens in a brief paragraph, wondering what the last words his father had murmured into his mother's ears were, unable to bring himself to consider much more surrounding that act [of committing suicide]. ... Grimbert ... is perilously close to presenting a well-rounded course of psychotherapeutic sessions, brought to their conclusion, getting it all into the open, going through it, putting the pieces in place ... 'Un Secret' is a well-presented, deeply unsettling, and fascinating story." - (http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/modfr/grimbert.htm). -- "Twenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths from a balcony, Philippe Grimbert has written a gripping novel about the hidden memories that dominated their lives. / A colossal bestseller in Europe, [Un Secret]/Memory is the story of a family haunted by the secret of their past: an illicit love affair, a lost child, and a devastating betrayal dating back to the Second World War. / "The day after my fifteenth birthday, I finally learned what I had always known..." / Growing up in postwar Paris as the sickly only child of glamorous athletic parents, the narrator invents for himself a make-believe older brother, stronger and more brilliant than he can ever be. It is only when the boy begins talking to an old family friend that he comes to realize that his imaginary sibling had a real predecessor: a half brother whose death in the concentration camps is part of a buried family secret that he was intended never to uncover." - (http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_M/memory1.asp). -- "At 15, a violent altercation with a schoolroom bully over a lesson on Holocaust victims results in the revelation of his origins: Grimbert, the narrator?s family?s name, was once Grinberg, and the story of his parents? romantic retreat to the country during the war is shattered by a heartbreaking story of betrayal and sacrifice in occupied France. For Grimbert, the aftermath of WWII forced survivors into prisons of their own memories and denial, bound together by an impossible grief." - (Editorial Review, Publishers Weekly vol. 254 iss. 45, p. 35 (c) 11/12/2007)."

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"Erlebnisbericht"
"Translations"
"Roman familial"
"Domestic fiction"
"Text"
"Francouzské romány"
"Electronic books"@en
"French fiction"
"Autobiographie"
"Powieść francuska"@pl
"Genres littéraires"
"Livres en gros caractères"
"Romans (teksten)"
"Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
"Fiction"
"Fiction"@en

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"Ge lou shang de mi mi = Un secret"
"Büyük sır : roman"
"Tajemství"
"Un secret : roman ; [Französische Lektüre ab dem 6. Lernjahr]"
"Memory a novel"@en
"Un segreto"
"Un segreto"@it
"Un secret"
"Un secret : roman"
"閣樓上的秘密"
"Un secreto"@es
"Ein Geheimnis"
"Semeĭnai︠a︡ taĭna"
"阁楼上的秘密 = Un secret"
"Een geheim"
"Un Secret"
"Le secret"
"Ein Geheimnis Roman"
"Un Secreto"
"Семейная тайна"
"Un secret : [roman]"
"閣樓上的祕密"
"Un Secret : roman"
"Ein Geheimnis : Roman"
"Un secret : Roman"
"Memory"
"Memory"@en
"Secret"
"Secret"@en
"Ge lou shang de mi mi"
"Tajemnica"@pl

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