Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young man named Samuel dies in a horrible car crash. Was it an accident or was it suicide? To answer that question, an unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to map Samuel's last day alive. 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...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...