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Lost Book
Narrated from the point of view of a young boy, Hans-Ulrich Treichel's Lost is an extraordinary and bitterly humorous novel of a child's alienation, and a moving meditation on guilt, the power of memory and the warping effects of loss.Fleeing from Poland in 1945 to escape the Russian army, a German couple lose their child, Arnold. Arnold's younger brother is brought up in a home permeated with grief and believing his older brother to be dead--until one day he is told of what actually happened: I was only just beginning to understand that Arnold, my un-dead brother, had the leading role in the family and had assigned me a supporting part. I also understood that Arnold was responsible from the very beginning for my growing up in an atmosphere poisoned with guilt and shame. From the day of … read more...
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