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Title: Burning Memory

Author: Marek Torčík

Number of pages: 256

Publisher: De Arbeiderspers

Format: Paperback

Publication year: 2025

Summary:

A late-night phone call from his mother takes the narrator back to his youth. As a gay teenager, he grew up in a family where money was scarce, in a conservative town where being different was punished. Memories unfold, like looking at old photographs, searching for details that often reveal more than what is obvious at first glance. He talks about his mother, father, and grandfather, about bullying, alcoholism, and sexual orientation, thus dissecting his own memories as individual fragments, but also a collective memory of the entire family.

Relevant tags:

Novel, Literature, male love, Alcoholism, Family, Conservative