Daniel Mendelsohn a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, is the author of the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. He teaches at Bard College.
"A magnificent and deeply wise book. . . . Mesmerizing. . . . Mendelsohn's accomplishment is enormous." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review"The Lost is the most gripping, the most amazing true story I have read in years. . . . Enthralling. . . . An immensely moving and beautifully written book." -- Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books"A remarkable personal narrative -- rigorous in its search for truth, at once tender and exacting. It is deeply moving, often distressing, sometimes funny. . . . Mendelsohn succeeds in assembling an immensely human tableau in which each witness has a face and each face a story and destiny." -- Elie Wiesel, Washington Post Book World (front cover)"Stunning. . . . A singular achievement, a work of major significance and pummeling impact." -- Samuel G. Freedman, Chicago Tribune"Mendelsohn, a classicist, creates a stunning Odyssey here, an epic world-wandering." -- Garry Wills"Daniel Mendelsohn has written a powerfully moving work of memoirist appropriation of a "lost" family past in tones reminiscent of the richly expansive prose works of Proust and the elusive texts of W.G. Sebald--a remarkable achievement." -- Joyce Carol Oates"Epic and personal, meditative and suspenseful, tragic and at times hilarious, The Lost is a wonderful book." -- Jonathan Safran Foer"A stunning memoir. . . . Beautiful and powerfully moving. . . . As suspenseful as a detective thriller, and as difficult to put down. . . . . What makes The Lost so extraordinary is how loving it is." -- O, the Oprah Magazine"The Lost is a sensitively written book that constantly asks itself the most difficult questions about history and memory." -- BookForum"A beautiful book, beautifully written." -- Michael Chabon"The Lost is a sensitively written book that constantly asks itself the most difficult questions about history and memory." -- BookForum"A grand book, an ambitious undertaking fully realized." -- Forward"Daniel Mendelsohn has written a powerfully moving work of a "lost" family past. . . . A remarkable achievement." -- Joyce Carol Oates"A stunning achievement. . . . Extraordinary." -- New York Observer"Hugely ambitious yet intensely engaging. . . . Absorbing, novelistic. . . . Thought-provoking and original." -- New York Times Book Review"A stirring detective work, The Lost is ... deepened by reflections on the inescapable part that chance plays in history." -- J. M. Coetzee"Mendelsohn, a classicist, creates a stunning Odyssey here, an epic world-wandering." -- Home & Garden"Riveting. . . . Recalls the recent work of Jonathan Franzen or early Joan Didion. . . . A brilliant, steely-eyed personal history." -- Newsday"Extraordinary. . . . Mr. Mendelsohn, an evocative, ruminative writer, brings to life the vanished world not just of prewar Poland but also of his childhood and his extended family." -- William Grimes, The New York Times"A masterpiece. . . . Daniel Mendelsohn is an astonishing writer. . . . This book for better or worse makes the Holocaust new again." -- The Jerusalem Post"An excellent memoir. . . . Essentially a detective story, The Lost winds up describing far more than Mendelsohn's relatives: It brings to life the struggle of an entire generation." -- People"Moving. . . . Proves that there are limitless ways of looking at that most inexplicable of human moments." -- Entertainment Weekly"A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, a testimony to the enduring power of the ancient archetypes that haunt one Jewish family and the greater human family, The Lost is as complex and rich with meaning and story as the past it seeks to illuminate. A beautiful book, beautifully written." -- Michael Chabon
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