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The Rest Is Memory
. Dec. 2024. 2:57 hrs. ISBN 9798894866079. $10.99. F COPY ISBN Tuck ( Heathcliff Redux and Other Stories) imagines the life of Czeslawa Kwoka, a 14-year-old young woman who was killed in Auschwitz in 1943. This historical novel draws inspiration from the real-life Czeslawa, whose image was poignantly captured on film by Wilhelm Brasse, a Polish photographer and prisoner in Auschwitz who took photos of over 40,000 fellow prisoners.
The Rest Is Memory
There have been countless histories, novels and films relating the horrors of the Holocaust. However, when done well, these narratives can still shock readers or viewers out of contemporary complacency and compel us to contend with this all-too-recent atrocity in new and important ways. That's the experience many will have when they pick up Lily Tuck's new book, THE REST IS MEMORY. Tuck explains in an author's note that the germ of the novel came from an obituary she encountered about a decade ago.
'The Rest Is Memory,' by Lily Tuck Original
THE REST IS MEMORY, by Lily Tuck Lily Tuck has range. She has written historical fiction set in South America - her novel " The News From Paraguay " won the National Book Award in 2004 - and low-key realist short stories about contemporary life. These works move with ease and a kind of persuasive expat familiarity between the south of France; Thailand; Cambridge, Mass.; and a dude ranch in Nevada.
Haunted by a photograph from Auschwitz, novelist Lily Tuck imagines a life in 'The Rest Is Memory'
A black-and-white photograph of a young girl. Her hair has been roughly shaved. She has a bruise under her lower lip. She is wearing a striped concentration camp uniform. On the shirt, her number is discernible: 26947. Photographer Wilhelm Brasse’s camera doesn’t lie: His subject stares straight ahead, not with indifference or defiance but fear. Ten years ago, writer Lily Tuck came across this photograph when reading Brasse’s obituary.
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Ali Smith. Pantheon, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-70156-0 Smith (How to Be Both) delivers an ingenious speculative novel in which two children come to terms with the mysteries of their unnamed country, which carries a whiff of post-Brexit England. The narrator, a 16-year-old boy named Brice, accompanies his younger sister, Rose, to see off their mother after she’s forced to leave for work in a far-off city. Upon returning to their house, the siblings find it encircled with a red line.
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Bestseller Rooney returns with a boldly experimental and emotionally devastating story of estrangement (after Beautiful World, Where Are You). After their father dies, brothers Peter and Ivan Koubek drift further apart. Peter, 32, is a depressed Dublin lawyer torn between his college girlfriend, Sylvia, who broke up with him with after she suffered a disabling accident six years earlier, and 23-year-old Naomi, a sometime sex worker.
‘Wuthering Heights’ Reimagined as a 1960s Affair
Fiction Feb. 4, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET HEATHCLIFF REDUX A Novella and Stories By Lily Tuck “Of course I had read ‘Wuthering Heights,’” reads the opening line of “Heathcliff Redux.” “I read it years ago in high school, but, in my late 20s, I decided to read it again.” The unnamed narrator of Lily Tuck’s restrained but remarkably arresting novella is a well-to-do wife and mother in rural Virginia.
Heathcliff Redux: A Novella and Stories
“All of the pieces in Heathcliff Redux possess moments of brilliance and reflect Lily Tuck’s tremendous craftmanship.” Lily Tuck’s Heathcliff Redux is an engaging and clever homage to or contemporary riff on Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. The novella, and title of the collection of short works, Heathcliff Redux is the most effective and well-written piece in in the volume, while the other four much shorter stories don’t really cohere and read more like sketches than well-formulated tales.
HEATHCLIFF REDUX
An ever growing list of worries, from a brother with drug problems to a climate change apocalypse, dances through the lively mind of a university librarian. In its clever and seductive replication of the inner monologue of a woman living in this particular moment in history, Offill’s (Dept. of Speculation, 2014, etc.) third novel might be thought of as a more laconic cousin of Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport.
Lily Tuck's Latest Novel Explores the Unbearable Taste of Doubt
From the winner of the National Book Award and author of Siam, Or The Woman Who Shot A Man, Lily Tuck’s Sisters is a fever dream of a novel, depicting the psychological trauma of one woman’s obsession with her husband’s ex-wife. In the final scene of Lily Tuck’s latest novel Sisters, the unnamed narrator ends up sharing a bed with her step-son following a night of decadent birthday celebrations.
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