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A carregar... A Day of Small Beginningspor Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. DNF she freely deploys Yiddish and Hebrew, then immediately translates it. To didactic for me. ( ) Poland, 1906. Friedl Alterman is laying in her grave in the Jewish cemetery in Zokof ready for her spirit to move on to a better place. Suddenly, Itzik Leiber, a 14-year-old boy, runs to her tombstone, hangs on to it for dear life, and beings to pray for help from the pursuing angry, Polish men. Friedl's spirit rises from her grave to protect him; thus beginning a haunting of three generations: Itzik, his son, and then his granddaughter. Even with the ghostly presence of Friedl, this is a realistic and fascinating story about one family and also the history of the Polish Jews. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Poland, 1906: on a cold spring night, in the small Jewish cemetery of Zokof, Friedl Alterman is wakened from death. On the ground above her crouches Itzik Leiber, a reclusive, unbelieving fourteen-year-old whose fatal mistake has spurred the town's angry residents to violence. The childless Friedl rises to guide him to safety -- only to find she cannot go back to her grave. Now Friedl is trapped in that thin world between life and death, her brash decision binding her forever to Itzik and his family: she is fated to be forever restless, and he, forever haunted by the ghosts of his past. Years later, after Itzik himself has gone to his grave, his son, Nathan, knows nothing of his bitter father's childhood. When he begrudgingly goes to Poland on business, Nathan decides on a whim to visit his ancestral town. There, in Zokof, he meets the mysterious Rafael, the town's last remaining Jew, who promises to pass on all the things Itzik had failed to teach his son - about Zokof, about his faith, and about himself. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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