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Cafe Scheherazadeis a haunting meditation on displacement, and the way the effects of war linger in the minds of its survivors. In this deeply moving book we meet Avram and Masha, proprietors of the cafe, and hear the tales that they and their fellow storytellers have to offer: of Moshe stalking the streets of Shanghai and Warsaw, of Laizer imprisoned in the Soviet city of Lvov, and of Zalman marooned in Vilna and Kobe. And we learn how Avram and Masha met and fell in love and came to create their Melbourne cafe together. In this mesmerising book, at once fable and history, fiction becomes a way of remaining faithful to the stories of cities strung across the globe like pearls on a string, to the maps and narratives etched in the minds of old men talking in a cafe by the sea. 'An original, deeply felt, beautifully written book.' Sydney Morning Herald Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.3Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Elizabethan 1558-1625Classificazione LCVotoMedia: (4.12)
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The stories blend the location of St Kilda in the 1990's with survivors gathering and reminiscing about old Europe, their escape, survival and their journeys since, at the real life Cafe Scheherazade in Acland Street in St Kilda. The stories encapsulate the loss of the people and the world they knew and extraordinary stories of survival in the most terrible circumstances. In contrast there is also the tangible relief of escape from the old life and the anticipation of the unburdened future... only for some to find that even in the safety of place and the passage of time you are never really at home in your new land. Contained amongst the tales is also the story of the real life Japanese Diplomat Chiune Sugihara, later honored by Israel as 'One of the Righteous Among Nations' which was very much an unknown story to me.
A very well written, interesting and inspirational novel that captures a St Kilda and a time and place and a people that has sadly almost disappeared with the onward march of the years. One of the best novels I have read in a long time.
Review Copy Purchased by the Reviewer from Readings Bookshop St Kilda (opposite the site of the old Cafe Scheherazade). Text Classics Publishing Australia $14.95.