But he’s not a historical novelist in any ordinary sense; he doesn’t seek to reconstruct the past. Rather, he’s interested in what remains after we’ve forgotten, in the little slips of memory and connection, the vague reminiscences, all of which hang on a detail, a proper name, an address, the glimpse of a face.
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His aim is never to explain away a charged moment in history, but rather to stay true to the opacity of the past. All of his literature participates in the same process of historical detail and blur, lamplight and shadow.
Alice Kaplan, Lamplight and Shadow.
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