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Blake Eskin, an American journalist, has a unique authority to write the story of the man who posed as a Holocaust survivor. According to his grandmother, their ancestors shared the name Wilkomirski, and when Binjamin first came to New York on the triumphant promotional tour of a celebrated author, he not only came to visit Eskin's family but claimed kinship with them. Now Eskin has told the strange tale of the man who calls himself Binjamin Wilkomirski, and the eerie process by which his assumed identity was unravelled. Not only is A Life in Pieces the biography of an enigmatic and unfathomable individual; it also fascinatingly explores wider issues, from the delicate task of verifying survivors' testimonies to the evolution of the Holocaust memoir as a lucrative literary genre. 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