Momik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. No-one will explain to him what life was like 'Over There' or what the 'Nazi Beast' is. His 9-year-old mind imagines a Nazi Beast hiding in the cellar, waiting to feed on Jews. Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and attachment. But through the stories his great-uncle tells him-the same stories he told the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp-Momik, too, becomes "infected with humanity."
See Under: Love is a luminously imaginative and profoundly affecting work.
| ISBN: | 9780099541592 |
| Publication date: | 2nd September 2010 |
| Author: | David Grossman |
| Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 458 pages |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
| Genres: |
Historical Fiction Modern and Contemporary Fiction |