The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book About a Vast Memory (collection)

This book is about one moment that destroyed an entire life. It is a story of how a bullet that pierced a man’s skull and passed into his brain shattered his world into thousands of pieces—pieces he was never able to put back together. This is a book about a person who gave all his strength to return his past and win his future. It’s a book about a struggle that isn’t used to victory—and about a victory that did not end the struggle.

In this book there is not a single line of fiction. Every statement has been verified by hundreds of observations and comparisons. The author of these lines had no right to make any changes to the pages of the diary written by the hero—choosing only fragments from separate notebooks without changing either style or meaning. The reader will appreciate this book—a book about one living person who fought with such persistence for his mind, experiencing insurmountable difficulties at every step, yet in the end emerged the winner from this exhausting, unequal struggle.