Memory Wall
Edition: First Scribner trade paperback edition (1)
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2011-07
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781439182840
Copyright date: 2011
Description: In the luminous and beautiful title story, winner of a 2010 National Magazine Award, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman's secret, a piece of the past with the power to redeem a life. In "The River Nemunas," a teenage orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. "Village 113," winner of an O'Henry Prize, is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seed keeper who guards the history of a village soon to be submerged. And in "Afterworld," the radiant, cathartic final story, a woman who escaped the Holocaust is haunted by visions of her childhood friends in Germany, yet finds solace in the tender ministrations of her grandson.
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Table of contents: title: Memory wall; title: Procreate, generate; title: The demilitarized zone; title: Village; title: The river Nemunas; title: Afterworld.