{"product_id":"the-third-solitude-benjamin-libman-9781459753662","title":"The Third Solitude: A Memoir Against History","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAn intimate memoir in essays seeking familial history and personal memory against the backdrop of the lost world of Montreal Jewry.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is the past? How can we let it speak on its own terms, without forcing it into the categories of history? In \u003cem\u003eThe Third Solitude\u003c\/em\u003e, Benjamin Libman gathers and weaves the threads of multiple pasts -- of his Montreal Jewish community, of his family, and of himself -- in search of an answer to these questions. Across a series of interconnected memories, Libman leads us through the many fragments that make a life: the kaleidoscopic recollections of childhood, the search for meaning and resolution in the face of unspeakable tragedy, the attempt to reconstruct the past from the rubble of its blasted forms that scatter across the present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Third Solitude\u003c\/em\u003e is a paean to the art of losing -- and to the visions of the past that persist in the present. Out of it rises, like a phantom, an image of the world of yesterday.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Libman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1459753666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781459753662\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dundurn Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/10\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Benjamin Libman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46094072676607,"sku":"9781459753662","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_17071d7e-59d5-4ee8-9104-195b75a2c4e1.jpg?v=1724843614","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-third-solitude-benjamin-libman-9781459753662","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}