The Forgotten

By Elie Wiesel

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Elie Wiesel's novel, first published in French in 1989, is about Elhanan Rosenbaum, a psychotherapist in New York, a Holocaust survivor and a veteran of Israel's wars, who is slowly losing his memory to an incurable illness. Before his memories vanish, he asks his son Malkiel to travel to his native village in Romania and recover the past, including a crime he witnessed there after the war.

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