Memory Thief (The Books of Mois Benarroch. A.Einstein Literature Award 2023. Jacqueline Kahanoff Award 2023. Yehuda Amichai Award.)

Mois Benarroch has been awarded the 2021 Jacqueline Kahanoff Book of the Year prize. It's a common experience that we sometimes talk with a sibling about a childhood memory, only to have them inform us that it was actually them, not us, who did that. But what are we really recalling when we remember? Scientific studies show that in less than 24 hours, we've already altered the memory of what happened. Perhaps our memories are not entirely our own - they are partly ours, partly derived from what others who were present have told us, and sometimes even memories of others that have seeped into our own mental record over time.

The narrator of The Thief of Memories does not actually steal memories, but feels like a thief, as he has a compulsion to capture the most intimate memories of others, only to later realize he can no longer distinguish their memories from his own. The Thief of Memories is an autobiography of the entire world. Love and Exiles, published in 2010 by the Escalera editorial in Madrid, is a cyclical work constructed in layers of seven novels. This work is being published here on Kindle for the first time, exactly as its author Mois Benarroch conceived it - a work with no first or last page, which can be started from any of the component parts, each of which builds a new and different work for each reader. In this way, the novels complete and simultaneously destroy each other, creating new possibilities.

Mois Benarroch, novelist, poet, and translator, has been awarded the Prime Minister's Prize (2008) and the Yehuda Amichay Poetry Prize (2012). The seven books that comprise this opus range from science fiction to realism, from prose to poetry, and from novel to short story, while still forming a cohesive narrative about coldness and indifference in exile. In each section, pairs of lovers come and go, searching for an impossible leap through time. They find each other at junctions, on corners, and in traffic jams, unaware that they will lose each other forever. Fans of imaginative, ambitious literature will delight in this collection, which describes an alternate reality as desperate as our own to know what's happening on the other side.

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