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Deeply personal account of a search for one family among his larger family, the one barely spoken of, only to say they were "killed by the Nazis." When Mendelsohn came upon a set of letters from his great uncle Schmiel, he set out to find what had happened to that lost family. The result is both memoir and history, an ambitious and gorgeously meditative detective story that takes him across the globe in search of the lost threads of these few almost forgotten lives. Winner of the Prix Médicis étranger 2007