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Kantika: A Novel di Elizabeth Graver
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Kantika: A Novel (edizione 2023)

di Elizabeth Graver (Autore)

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A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, Kantika?"song" in Ladino?follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way?a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure, and motherhood. Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an arranged second marriage, she faces her greatest challenge?her disabled stepdaughter, Luna, whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit new family against old. Exploring identity, place, and exile, Kantika also reveals how the female body?in work, art, and love?serves as a site of both suffering and joy. A haunting, inspiring meditation on the tenacity of women, this lush, lyrical novel from Elizabeth Graver celebrates the insistence on seizing beauty and grabbing hold of one's one and only life.… (altro)
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Titolo:Kantika: A Novel
Autori:Elizabeth Graver (Autore)
Info:Metropolitan Books (2023), 304 pages
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Fictionalized story of the author's family story. It traces the life of Rebecca Cohen who flees with her family from Turkey during the fall of the Ottoman Empire. They emigrate to Spain where they also experience antisemitism. Rebecca is a talented seamstress and starts her own business. There is a lack of opportunities to find a mate, and she is duped into marrying the brother of a friend whom it turns out has been damaged emotionally by WWI. Two sons are born, before his demise.

Rebecca then emigrates to Cuba to meet Sam, the widowed husband of her childhood friend from Turkey. They marry and return to his family in New York. The rest of the story is full of family drama as they raise a blended family with the handicapped daughter from Sam's first marriage. WWII ensues and the story ends in 1950 with the family of 6 children mostly raised. ( )
  tangledthread | Mar 30, 2024 |
Basically the life story of one woman, Rebecca Cohen - a Sephardic Jew who speaks the language of Ladino, who is growing up in Istanbul as the Ottoman Empire is collapsing. The family heads back to Spain and is living in Barcelona. Rebecca's oldest sister marries and leaves for America. Her father and mother feel she needs to be married and she is married to a man with some mental defects. They have two sons. The husband is gone often.

After the first husband's death, Rebecca returns to live with her parents; her mother taking care of the boys while she works as a seamstress. As troubles start in Spain (the Spanish Revolution), the family feels she need to remarry. Rebecca's childhood friend who also left for America has now died and the father is left with a disabled daughter. Rebecca leaves for Cuba where he meets and marries Sam. When she arrives in New York, she finds the daughter is severely disabled and needy although very bright.

Much of the story tells of Rebecca and Sam's life in New York, her seamstress business, Rebecca's work with Luna, the daughter, and the arrival of her two boys from Spain. The story ends with Rebecca singing at a Jewish Community Center in the Bronx (the word "kantika" means song in their ethnic language. The boys are grown, Luna has grown and has developed a life of her own.

The story is based on the family of the author and there are family pictures included. A good read, believable characters, details that are touching. ( )
  maryreinert | Mar 8, 2024 |
„Kantika“ von Elizabeth Graver, mareverlag, 20. Februar 2024, Gebundene Ausgabe, 386 Seiten, Sprache: Deutsch, Übersetzerin: Juliane Zaubitzer, ISBN-13: 978-3866487109

„Es ist die schöne Zeit, die Zeit der ausgebreiteten Flügel, der Freudensprünge und offenen Türen, das Leben ein haltloser Fluss von hier nach dort. Es ist die vorgedankliche Zeit, die Welt noch nicht als Listen wahrgenommen, nicht als Rückblick oder Futur, sondern als inbrünstige Musik – kantas, singen.“ (Zitat Seite 9)

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Rebecca wächst in Istanbul behütet und finanziell privilegiert auf, ohne dies wirklich zu bemerken. Bis sich am 14. November 1914 alles ändert. Die Familie wird gezwungen, nach Spanien auszuwandern, wo sie in Barcelona einen Neubeginn versuchen. Bisher Inhaber eines Textilunternehmens ist Alberto, Rebeccas Vater und das Familienoberhaupt nun Hausmeister der kleinen Synagoge. Rebecca ist bereits vierundzwanzig Jahre alt, als sie endlich den größten Wunsch ihrer Eltern erfüllt, sie heiratet. Bald darauf ist sie eine junge Witwe mit zwei Kindern. Auch die zweite Ehe wird von der Familie arrangiert und führt sie nach New York. Die Zeiten sind für Juden gefährlich geworden und diese Heirat ist die Hoffnung für die Familie auf eine Einreise in die sicheren Vereinigten Staaten.

Thema und Genre
In diesem Generationenroman geht es um Kulturen, Religionen, Heimat und den Verlust der Heimat, Vertreibung, Familiengefüge, Frauenleben-

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Da dieser Roman fiktiv-biografisch ist und die Familiengeschichte der Autorin betrifft, gibt er wesentliche, interessante Einblicke in das Leben der jüdischen Familien in dieser Zeit. Im personalen Mittelpunkt der Geschichte steht Rebecca, der Großmutter der Autorin. Geschildert wird ihr wechselvolles Leben mit schicksalhaften Wendungen und großen Veränderungen. Sie ist beeindruckend, einerseits ist sie eine selbstbewusste Frau, die eigenständig für sich und ihre Kinder sorgt, andererseits wird sie durch den Vater als Oberhaupt der Familie zwei Mal in reine Zweckehen getrieben. Interessant werden die späteren Kapitel, wo der personale Mittelpunkt wechselt und Luna, die Tochter von Sam, Rebeccas zweitem Ehemann, Rebecca aus ihrer Sicht schildert. Es sind die Menschen, die im Mittelpunkt dieser Geschichte stehen. Interessant sind die Schilderungen, die Geschichten und dieses leichte Wechseln zwischen den Religionen Judentum und Christentum am Beispiel von Rebecca in Konstantinopel. Leider rückt mit Barcelona die Situation der Familie immer mehr in den Vordergrund und wir erfahren wenig über die allgemeine, gesellschaftspolitische Situation in Barcelona und noch weniger über das Leben in der lebhaften, interessanten Stadt New York der 1930er Jahre. Die Sprache ist angenehm zu lesen und passt zu diesem epischen Generationenroman

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In Generationenroman über Heimat und Verlust der Heimat, über Hoffnung und Neubeginn in fremden Ländern, anderen Kulturräumen und neuen Sprachen. Obwohl in den Traditionen im Familiengefüge die Männer, Väter und Ehemänner, die Entscheidungen treffen und bestimmen, was geschieht, sind es in dieser Geschichte die Frauen, jede auf ihre Art stark und mutig, die sich den immer wieder neuen Herausforderungen des Lebens stellen. ( )
  Circlestonesbooks | Feb 29, 2024 |
Reason read: JBC GR
This was a very moving book. It is set in the ears before WWII and WWII and involves a multi-generational Shepartic family as they move from Turkey, Spain, Cuba, and US. It's mostly about women, about displacement, ritual, and family. Published 2023. I found the story very moving. It is based on the author's grandmother's life. I listened to the audio version and really enjoyed listening to the languages in the book and the singing. The reader did a wonderful job. The reader was Gail Shalan. ( )
  Kristelh | Dec 28, 2023 |
A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home.
  HandelmanLibraryTINR | May 17, 2023 |
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“Graver’s writing is beautiful, lyrical and the embodiment of the “kantika” — the song — of the title… [This] book is authentic, a piece of transnational, century-spanning Jewish history.”
 
With great reverence and respect, Graver fictionalizes the saga of her maternal grandmother, Rebecca Levy, weaving a personal historical tale that follows the determined and courageous Sephardic young woman from her early high-class childhood in Istanbul to her family’s migration to Spain in the late 1920s to a peripatetic adulthood that brings her to Cuba and New York in the 1930s as the world braces for the onset of WWII. Following an unsatisfying marriage that ends with the premature death of her husband, Rebecca and her two sons seize an opportunity to relocate to America via an arranged marriage to Sam, the widower of Rebecca’s best friend. Sam not only needs a wife, he needs a mother for his daughter, Luna, who suffers from cerebral palsy. Rebecca’s love for Sam is almost instantaneous. Her affection for the challenging Luna takes longer, but it blossoms into a deep maternal love that launches Luna into a full and vibrant maturity. Graver’s paean to resolve and resiliency paints a vivid portrait of spirit and grit.
aggiunto da Elizabeth.Graver | modificaBooklist, Carol Haggas
 
Graver (The End of the Point) delivers a luminous story of a Sephardic family disrupted by wars and antisemitism. Rebecca Cohen has a happy early childhood in Constantinople, where she and her best friend Rahelika “Lika” Nahon thrive at a French-speaking Catholic school. The eruption of WWI, though, interrupts this childhood idyll. The Turkish military takes over the Cohen family’s textile factory, and Rebecca finds work with a local dressmaker to help the family make ends meet. With antisemitism on the rise after the war, the near-destitute Cohens end up in Barcelona, where Rebecca’s father Alberto works as a caretaker in a synagogue. Rebecca dreams of living in the United States, where Lika has immigrated, but feels duty-bound to remain with her family. With her brothers’ encouragement she sets up a dressmaking business, which flourishes only when she hides her Jewish identity. Years later, after Rebecca has two children and becomes a widow, Lika dies in childbirth and her widower asks Rebecca to marry him, forcing her to make a series of difficult decisions and compromises. With elegant prose, Graver offers a memorable portrait of a self-reliant woman tied to faith and traditions.
 
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A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, Kantika?"song" in Ladino?follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way?a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure, and motherhood. Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an arranged second marriage, she faces her greatest challenge?her disabled stepdaughter, Luna, whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit new family against old. Exploring identity, place, and exile, Kantika also reveals how the female body?in work, art, and love?serves as a site of both suffering and joy. A haunting, inspiring meditation on the tenacity of women, this lush, lyrical novel from Elizabeth Graver celebrates the insistence on seizing beauty and grabbing hold of one's one and only life.

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