In Memory of Memory

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Paperback, 510 pages

English language

Published Feb. 17, 2021 by Fitzcarraldo Editions.

ISBN:
978-1-913097-53-0
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With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family managed to survive the twentieth century.

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This is a massive book. Not only it's endurance of pages able to sustain rigorous thought but the ambition of its intellectual reach. Stepanova passionately covers a wide range of topics relating to memory, identity, history, philosophy, and on and on all stemming from a single project: the unearthing of her late Aunt's collection of family photographs, diaries, and scraps of correspondence.

There probably comes a time in everyone's life when the urge to look into ancestry begins calling. Stepanova has shown is the best of what can happen when one heeds that call.

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