Jonas Hassen Khemiri
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English
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"Everything I Don't Remember is a gripping tale about love and memory. But it is also a story about a writer who, by filling out the contours of Samuel's story, is actually trying to grasp a truth about himself. In the end, what remains of all our fleeting memories? And what is hidden behind everything we don't remember?"--
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English
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"A novel about a family in crisis, as a proud patriarch encounters the harsh realities he has inflicted on his children"--
A grandfather who lives abroad returns home to Sweden to visit his adult children. The son is a failure. The daughter is having a baby with the wrong man. Only the grandfather is perfect-- at least, according to himself. Over the course of ten intense days relationships unfold and painful memories resurface. The grandfather is...
3) Montecore
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English
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At the start of this dazzlingly inventive novel from Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Abbas, a world-famous photographer and estranged father to a young novelist also named Jonas Hassen Khemiri is standing on a luxurious rooftop terrace in New York City. He is surrounded by rock stars, intellectuals, and political luminaries gathered to toast his fiftieth birthday. And yet how did Abbas, a dirt-poor Tunisian orphan and Swedish emigre, come to enjoy such success?
Jonas...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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When his father's oldest friend, Kadir, emails Jonas to propose that they collaborate on a biography of Jonas' famous father, Jonas is reluctant-- he hasn't seen his father in nine years. Kadir's accounts of Abbas are admiring, Jonas' memories are critical and laced with irony and rage-- and we're given a portrayal of a man that is at once tender and feverishly imagined.
