The Forgotten

By Elie Wiesel

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Elhanan Rosenbaum, a New York psychotherapist, Holocaust survivor and veteran of Israel's wars, is slowly losing his memory to an incurable illness. Wiesel's novel first appeared in French in 1989. Before his memories vanish, he asks his son Malkiel to travel to his native village in Romania and recover the past, including a crime he witnessed there in the weeks after the war.

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