num_pages: 240
description: From one of Granta s Best Young Brazilian Novelists a literary masterpiece that will break your heartAt the narrators elite Jewish school in a posh suburb of Porte Alegre a cruel prank leaves the only Catholic student there terribly injured. Years later he relives the episode as he examines the mistakes of his past and struggles for forgiveness. His father who has Alzheimers obsessively records every memory that comes to mind and his grandfather who survived Auschwitz fills notebook after notebook with the false memories of someone desperate to forget.This powerful novel centered on guilt and the complicated legacy of history asks provocative questions about what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century.
language: English
title: Diary of the Fall
publisher: Other Press