Rose: The Memorist (2008)

The Book Giveaway is a simple website, where every week anyone can enter to win one of five books, no strings attached. This week, till Friday, one of the selected books are M.J. Rose‘s The memorist. The description of the book at the site explains why I mention it in this blog.

THE MEMORIST follows the compelling adventures of a memory expert, Meer Logan and her father Jeremy – a Kabbalist, known as the Jewish Indiana Jones – from New York City to the ancient cobblestone streets of Vienna as they attempt to learn the meaning behind Meer’s hauntingly vivid memories. What they discover could reveal a frighteningly powerful secret hidden for generations by one of the greatest composers of all time.
As a child, Meer suffered from the dreads: memories of another time and place always accompanied by the faint strains of elusive music. Now the dreads are back. The past has reached out again in the form of a strange letter that sets her on a search to unlock the mystery of who she once was.
With each step she comes closer to remembering the connections between a clandestine reincarnationist society, a lost flute linked to Ludwig van Beethoven, and David Yalom, a journalist who understands all too well how the past affects the future.
David knows loss firsthand – terrorism is a reality that cost him his family. He’s seen every solution promised by security experts around the world – and he’s seen every solution fail. Now in a concert hall in Vienna, he plans to force the world to understand the cost of those failures in a single violent act. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.