Bibliograph

The shadow of memory, [a novel]

Type

Label

The shadow of memory, [a novel]

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The shadow of memory

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Swiss literature series

Sub title

[a novel]

Summary

In this eerie, compelling, and playful novel, a young man tormented by his feeble memory meets an elderly man, Robert, endowed with the recall of an elephant. Soon, in exchange for becoming his live-in servant, Robert agrees to allow his young protégé to inherit his prodigious memory upon his death. While this might seem a fair if absurd exchange, Robert's demands become progressively more macabre, until the narrator is forced to decide what he is truly willing to sacrifice for the ability to remember. The debut novel of Bernard Comment, acclaimed author and editor, now available in English for the first time, The Shadow of Memory brings a fairy-tale premise into the modern world, where information-and its loss-can be a matter of life and death

Target audience

adult

Classification