Overview
"From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Poland--and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows Menachem Kaiser's brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather's former battle to reclaim the family's apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as ""The Killer."" A surprise discovery--that his grandfather's cousin not only survived the war, but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast, secret Nazi tunnel complex--leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Propelled by rich original research, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent, daring interrogation of inheritance--material, spiritual, familial, and emotional."
Full Product Details
Author: Meir Menachem Kaiser ,
Meir Menachem Kaiser
Publisher: Hmh Adult Audio
Imprint: Hmh Adult Audio
Dimensions:
Width: 13.50cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 17.00cm
Weight: 0.091kg
ISBN: 9781799968795
ISBN 10: 1799968790
Publication Date: 16 March 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""A morally complicated tale leavened by the author's empathy and humor."" -- ""New York Times Book Review"" ""A twisting and reverberant and consistently enthralling story."" -- ""New York Times"" ""An exemplary contribution to the recent literature on the fraught history of the Shoah."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"" ""Spellbinding...Superbly written, this page-turner reads like a gripping adventure novel."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"""
Menachem Kaiser is a young writer and storyteller of stunning talent, originality, and wisdom, and his debut book is gloriously impossible to categorize--by turns hilarious and profound, digressive and suspenseful, intimate and sweeping, it stands as an enviable accomplishment. --Gideon Lewis-Kraus, author of A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful Reparations and treasure hunting: I can't think of two better metaphors for memoir writing, and I can't think of a better recent memoir than Menachem Kaiser's Plunder, which has heart, humor, and intelligence to spare. --Joshua Cohen, author of Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction
Author Information
MENACHEM KAISER holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and was a Fulbright Fellow to Lithuania. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, New York, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. MENACHEM KAISER holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and was a Fulbright Fellow to Lithuania. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, New York, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
