Full name: W, or the Memory of Childhood

Author: Georges Perec Year: 1975 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Culture: France Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781567921588 1567921582

Combining fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecedented way, Georges Perec leads the reader inexorably towards the horror that lies at the origin of the post-World War Two world and at the crux of his own identity. Similar books: The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq The Notebook by Agota Kristof Nohow On by Samuel Beckett So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal Joy of Man's Desiring by Jean Giono The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau The Song of the World by Jean Giono Once Upon the River Love by Andrei Makine The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre The Great Fire of London by Jacques Roubaud Honeymoon by Patrick Modiano Harvest by Jean Giono Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera The File on H by Ismail Kadare Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Conde The Rover by Joseph Conrad The Last Life by Claire Messud Lucien Leuwen by Stendhal