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Sto caricando le informazioni... Il peso del corpo (2007)di Ehud Havazelet
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I'm 47 and it has begun to occur to me that my time left on earth for reading is limited. I started "Bearing the Body" and put it down around page 100. What made me dubious, at first, was mention that the central character, David, an ER doctor actually treated a man who had spider eggs in his face that hatched in the treatment room. This is a well-known piece of urban lore that has no basis in fact. The novel is populated with characters so uninteresting as to be catatonic. A father and son travel to San Francisco to deal with the murder of the other son. They find, Oh my God, that he had a girlfriend he never mentioned, although he had had little contact with his family for years. The girlfriend, Oh my God, has a child from a previous relationship and, Oh my God, the child appears to have an African-American father. In San Francisco in 2006, this is supposed to pass as shocking. I put the book down, because, "at my back, I always hear, Time's winged chariot hurrying near..." nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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ANew York TimesNotable Book of the Year At the start ofBearing the Body, Nathan Mirsky learns that his older brother has died in San Francisco, apparently murdered after years of aimlessness. On the spur of the moment, Nathan leaves his job as a medical resident and heads west from Boston to learn what he can about Daniel's death. His father, Sol--a quiet, embittered Holocaust survivor--insists on coming along. Piecing together Daniel's last days, Nathan and Sol are forced to confront secrets that have long isolated them from each other and to being a long process of forgiveness. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Dysfunction reigns, and rains, heavily, through the clouds of family dynamics. Silence resounds loudly, echoing fragments of the past, of the Holocaust. Assimilation and trying to forget one’s past affects the children of survivors, in more ways than one can imagine.
There are no right answers to the questions that the Havazelet’s writing evokes. He writes with sensitivity, ever aware of the frailty of humans, ever conscious of the Holocaust and of the repercussions and consequences of the survivors’ choices. He is not judgmental, doesn’t force blame on anyone, but at the same time, he writes with clarity, not sugar-coating the situations and scenarios that Sol and Nathan find themselves in.
Grandparents and parents must find a way to tell their grandchildren and children about the Holocaust. Their experiences must be carried down through the generations. Their stories shouldn’t be left in the caves within the mind and soul to fester, causing unhealthy and extreme emotional outlets. In my opinion, that is Ehud Havazelet’s message, and he delivers it through intense word images, and through masterful writing. ( )