Catalog of lost things

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The history of the world is full of things that have been lost—unintentionally destroyed or lost in the course of time. In his book, Judith Shalansky tries to capture what the lost leaves behind: echoes and erased traces, rumors and legends, signs of oblivion and phantom pains. A painting by Caspar David Friedrich, a view of a tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific Ocean—this by definition incomplete catalog of the lost and gone becomes the ark for twelve stories, revealing their narrative power where conventional tradition fails. The protagonists of these stories are people or their spirits struggling with transience: an old man who keeps the knowledge of mankind in his garden in Ticino, an artist of ruins who creates the past as it never was, an aged Greta Garbo who wanders Manhattan, wondering when it was she who could have died, and the writer Judith Shalansky, who traces the traces of the history of the GDR in the empty places of her own childhood.
This book, a winner of the Wilhelm Raabe Prize and a finalist for the International Booker, has been acclaimed by many critics around the world for showing that the difference between presence and absence can be negligible as long as memory and literature exist to allow one to experience how close one is to friend preservation and destruction, loss and creation.

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Publication language: Russian

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