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The
2005 Award
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A Memory of War by Frederick Busch
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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Psychologist Alexander Lescziak savours a life of
quiet sophistication on Manhattan's Upper West Side, turning a blind eye
to the past of his Polish émigré parents. Then a new patient
declares that he is the doctor's half-brother, the product of a union between
Lescziak's Jewish mother and a German prisoner of war. The confrontation
jolts Lescziak out of his complacency: suddenly, his failing marriage, his
wife's infatuation with his best friend, and the disappearance of his young
lover and suicidal patient, Nella, close in on him. Lescziak escapes into
the recesses of his imagination, where his mother's affair with the German
prisoner comes to life in precise, gorgeous detail. As the novel unfolds
into a romance set in England's Lake District in wartime, Frederick Busch
stunningly reveals how the past presses in upon the present.
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| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Frederick Busch is the author of nineteen books of fiction. His most recent novel is The Night Inspector, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives in upstate New York, USA. |
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