Uriel Through Eleanor

<p>Uriel Uri Katz World War Two veteran concentration camp liberator devout atheist contrarian cynic and lifelong bachelor places an ad in a newspaper seeking a typist to assist him in writing his memoir and receives only one reply from a woman named Eleanor who negotiates a deal with him that includes room and board.</p><p>Within days of her arrival Eleanor begins inserting herself into Uri's story. So much so that she eventually becomes one of its main characters. And while Uri is dismayed and at times exasperated by this turn of events he's also grown accustomed to Eleanor's company and cooking and as such begrudgingly puts up with the semi-appropriation of his memoir.</p><p>Though what remains imperceptible to Uri-until the novel's final thrilling pages-is that Eleanor's appearance in his life wasn't coincidental; it was manufactured by her. And that the two have been intricately linked since the day he marched into the concentration camp.</p><p>Brian Prousky's dazzling new book is memoir-writing turned on its head. It's a story about storytelling itself. About the power of language to shape and misshape history. And about the equal perils of sharing and not sharing deep-held secrets.</p>