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In this wealthy and riveting narrative, a writer's seek out the truth behind his family's tragic past in World Battle II becomes an amazingly original epic - part memoir, part reportage, part unknown, and part scholarly detective work - that brilliantly explores the nature of their time and ram, family and history. The Lost starts as the story of a young man who grew up in a family group haunted by the disappearance of six family members during the Holocaust - an unmentionable subject matter that gripped his imagination from earliest child years. Generations later, spurred by the breakthrough of the cache of anxious characters written to his grandfather in 1939 and tantalized by fragmentary tales of an awful betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn places out to find the left over eyewitnesses to his family members' fates. That goal eventually can take him to twelve countries on four continents and pushes him to confront the wrenching discrepancies between your histories we live and the stories we inform. And it leads him, finally, back to the tiny Ukrainian town where his family's report began and where in fact the solution to a decades-old unknown awaits him. Deftly moving between past and present, interweaving a world-wandering odyssey with child years memories of the now-lost era of immigrant Jews and provocative ruminations on biblical texts and Jewish history, The Lost changes the story of 1 family into a profound, morally searching yoga on our fragile hold on days gone by. Deeply personal, grippingly suspenseful, and amazingly written, this literary tour de push illuminates all that is lost, and found, in the passage of time.