Everything I Don't Remember : A Novel (Paperback)

from seeword

Memory is strange. In this novel people seem to be remembering their friend Samuel, who died in a car accident. But are their memories true? Samuel claimed he had a terrible memory, but did he understand just how selective memory is? The narrator is a writer interviewing Samuel's friends and fami...

from alanteder

Memory Mystery Review of the Washington Square Press paperback (2018) translated from the Swedish original "Allt jag inte minns" (2015) Everything I Don't Remember is a challenging read due to the manner of its presentation by a fictional version of the author Khemiri himself. He is investigatin...

from sherribelcher

When Samuel dies in a car crash, an unidentified writer goes in search of the truth behind his death by interviewing his friends and family. Was Samuel's death an accident or was it suicide? We are given Samuel's story through the writer's interviews with Samuel's mother, his roommate, his childh...

from curious_squid

3.89 stars. Unique way of writing. Slow reveal of what happened. More style points than story/plot points.

from Pet12

Everything I Don't Remember won the August prize for best Swedish fiction book of the year in 2015. Generally, the fact that it was awarded a prize would be a clear indicator that it won't be a book for me. Not so in this instance. I can actually for once understand why this book won an award. Ev...