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Shadow of Memory

Shadow of Memory

Comment, Bernard
Wing, Betsy

Paperback

Series: Swiss Literature

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $14.00

ISBN10: 1564788431
ISBN13: 9781564788436
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr
Published: Nov 12 2012
Pages: 205
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

The Shadow of Memory brings a fairy-tale premise into the modern world, where information--and its loss--can be a matter of life and death.

In this eerie, compelling, and playful novel, a young man tormented by his feeble memory meets an elderly man, Robert, endowed with the recall of an elephant. Soon, in exchange for becoming his live-in servant, Robert agrees to allow his young protégé to inherit his prodigious memory upon his death. While this might seem a fair if absurd exchange, Robert's demands become progressively more macabre, until the narrator is forced to decide what he is truly willing to sacrifice for the ability to remember. This is the first English edition of The Shadow of Memory, the debut novel of acclaimed author and editor Bernard Comment, is now available in English for the first time.

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