The Soul of the Silver Dog

By Lynn Hall

Book Overview

'I often dreamed about the moment of the fall, a silence that lasted a second, possibly two, a room full of sixty people and no one making a sound, as if everyone were waiting for my classmate to cry out ... but he lay on the ground with his eyes closed' A schoolboy prank goes horribly wrong, and a thirteen-year-old boy is left injured. Years later, one of the classmates relives the episode as he tries to come to terms with his demons. Diary of the Fall is the story of three generations: a man examining the mistakes of his past, and his struggle for forgiveness; a father with Alzheimer's, for whom recording every memory has become an obsession; and a grandfather who survived Auschwitz, filling notebook after notebook with the false memories of someone desperate to forget. Beautiful and brave, Michel Laub's novel asks the most basic - and yet most complex - questions about history and identity, exploring what stories we choose to tell about ourselves and how we become the people we are.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679847588
• ISBN13: 9780679847588
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.3" x 5.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

good way to get in to agility

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One of the most moving stories I've ever read!!!!!

I loved the Book I read It for hours and hours at a time;you would want to read over and over again.After you read it you would want to Build a track of your own,to get over the sadness you recieve at the end.You don't want it to End!!!

A Touching Book

This book is very touching. You feel like you really know the characters. The story is one that you must read.