Memory / Philippe Grimbert ; translated from the French by Polly McLean

"First published in English translation by Portobello Books Ltd. in the UK as Secret in 2007"--T.p. verso. "Winner of the Prix Goncourt, Winner of Elle Magazine's readers prize, Winner of the Prix Wizo (Jewish interest)"--Cover.

"Twenty years after his mother and father jumped to their deaths from a balcony, Philippe Grimbert has written a gripping novel about the hidden memories that dominated their lives." "Memory is the story of a family haunted by the secret of their past: an illicit love affair, a lost child, and a devastating betrayal dating back to the Second World War." "Growing up in postwar Paris as the sickly only child of glamorous athletic parents, the narrator invents for himself a make-believe older brother, stronger and more brilliant than he can ever be. It is only when the boy begins talking to an old family friend that he comes to realize that his imaginary sibling had a real predecessor: a half brother whose death in the concentration camps is part of a buried family secret that he was intended never to uncover."--BOOK JACKET.