The Book Of Israel - Brossura

Gavron, Jeremy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0743220994 ISBN 13: 9780743220996

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2003

Riassunto

Dunsk, Lithuania, 1874: brought home dying from the mill, an old man leaves his new grandson the only thing of value he owns - his name. In one Jewish family, the forename Israel is handed down from generation to generation. But as parts of the family move across the world - beginning in Lithuania at the end of the 19th century and finishing in London at the beginning of the 21st - different Israels in different countries have very different relationships with the name and the weighty expectations it represents.

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Recensione:

Book of Israel by Jeremy Gavron
''An intelligent, often very moving novel, a deserving winner of the Encore Prize'
Daily Telegraph 2/8
'Rich in the detail of Anglo-Jewish experience'
Guardian 2/8
'Gavron has crafted an understated and self-effacing fiction with the power of a multi-volume epic'
Observer 31/8
‘Jeremy Gavron certainly shows a sophisticated grasp of his material, using letters, newspaper cuttings and other literary fragments to capture the great sweep of history’
Sunday Telegraph 4/12

L'autore:

Jeremy Gavron worked as a journalist in Africa and India, and spent two years as a writer-in-residence in a prison. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed MOON

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0743220994
• ISBN 13: 9780743220996
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288