Scott Simon talks with Lily Tuck about her new novel, "The Rest is Memory." Based on a real photograph, she imagines the life of a Polish girl killed at Auschwitz concentration camp.

Lily Tuck’s new novel revisits the Holocaust through one girl’s life and death In ‘The Rest Is Memory,’ the author puts a face on a statistic By Clea Simon Updated December 4, 2024, 10:00 a.m.

Lily Tuck’s “The Rest Is Memory” is about the life of a Catholic Polish teenager who was killed at Auschwitz.

Lily Tuck cunningly layers history and character to restore to life Czeslawa Kwoka, who died in Auschwitz. It's hard to stop reading it.

Lily Tuck’s attempt to bring to life a victim of the atrocity turns her into a prosecutor, not a novelist.