The Canvas
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Loosely based on the true story of Binjamin Wilkomirski, whose fabricated 1995 Holocaust memoir transfixed the reading public, The Canvas has a singular construction—its two inter-related narratives begin at either end of the book and meet in the middle.
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Amnon Zichroni, a psychoanalyst in Zurich, encourages Minsky to write a book about his traumatic childhood experience in a Nazi death camp, a memoir which the journalist Jan Wechsler claims is fiction. Ten years later, a suitcase arrives on Wechsler's doorstep. Allegedly, he lost the suitcase on a trip to Israel, but Wechsler has no memory of the suitcase, nor the trip, and he travels to Israel to investigate the mystery. But it turns out he has been to Israel before, and his host on the trip, Amnon Zichroni, has been missing ever since. . .
A mind-bending investigation of memory, identity, truth, and delusion. The Canvas is the publishing event of the year, a novel whose meaning depends on the order in which it is read.
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