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The Street Sweeper
Written by Elliot Perlman

Hardcover | 576 pages | Bond Street Books | Fiction | 978-0-385-66562-9 | January 3, 2012 | $32.95

The Street Sweeper is an astonishing feat of storytelling that addresses the personal and the political as it sweeps across the globe, through the seminal events of the twentieth century to the present. Honest, hypnotic and redemptive, this is a novel that explores the responsibility of the historian, the weight of history on all of us, and the crucial role that bearing witness plays in breaking the cycle of human cataclysm.

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Seneca,
the first frozen apple juice,
enriched with vitamin C.
Rich, delicious Seneca . . .

Memory is a wilful dog. It won't be summoned or dismissed but it cannot survive without you. It can sustain you or feed on you. It visits when it is hungry, not when you are. It has a schedule all its own that you can never know. It can capture you, corner you or liberate you. It can leave you howling and it can make you smile.

Rich, delicious Seneca,
sweetened naturally.

'The trick is not to hate yourself.' That's what he'd been told inside. 'If you can manage not to hate yourself, then it won't hurt to remember almost anything: your childhood, your parents, what you've done or what's been done to you,' he was told. But even at the time, it struck Lamont that a lot of the people who had been locked up with him did not 'hate themselves' quite enough. He remembers a lot of the people being fairly forgiving towards themselves. Some, positively brimming with forgiveness for themselves, could not understand it when others were not so forgiving of them. This dissociation from who you were, where you were, could even be funny.