Anything goes in this eclectic collection by the author of Those Who Walk in Darkness and its sequel, The Abyss Between Dawn and Night. Poignant fiction intertwines with humorous recollections in settings that range from antiquity to the present. Loving memories of growing up in Chile in the 1950s and 1960s segue into such far-flung subjects as intelligent design, nine-eleven, and early pioneers in Israel. Locations vary from Boston and New York to ancient Rome and modern Jerusalem. Echoes and Markings' colorful gallery of characters range from the zany to the sinister, the naive to the devious. You will meet a philosopher whose job is to remind people of their mortality, a fifteen-year-old boy who has a fight with his father on Yom Kippur eve, a Chilean political refugee in New York whose only ambition is to have a bathroom of his own, a jumbo-sized salesman who sells through intimidation, an ultra-orthodox Jew who has built a wall between his religious and business practices, and many others. Echoes and Markings' vignettes, memoirs and stories are rendered with keen sensitivity. Even the book's least likeable characters exhibit deep humanity, compelling us to understand them and ultimately to love them.
From Bessarabia at the start of the twentieth century to Boston in the 1930s, the Rabinowitz family struggles to reach America and make it home while fighting poverty, anti-Semitism and the consequences of difficult choices.
It is Boston, 1969, and the Rabinowitz family is at the peak of its wealth and happiness after celebrating Tateh and Mameh's fiftieth wedding anniversary. But following the party a sudden death sends shock waves through the family. The immigrant clan, which fought its way from poverty to prominence in the novel THOSE WHO WALK IN DARKNESS, must navigate a devastating series of reversals in this stirring sequel. Isidore, head of the family shoe empire, faces a challenge greater than business as his family falls apart. Jake, a famous artist overwhelmed by family secrets, seeks answers by traveling to his parents' birthplace in Bessarabia, not suspecting that what he will find there will only deepen his turmoil. And Hanna, a brilliant attorney, enters into a relationship that she knows from the start will end in heartbreak. THE ABYSS BETWEEN DAWN AND NIGHT also introduces a new generation: Jake's son David, a doctor caught in the mayhem of a civil war; and Isidore's sons Doug and Justin, who are trying to find their paths in the turbulent sixties. You'll also meet a dangerous woman leading a ragged rebel army, a bigoted industrialist and his daughter, a bumbling Communist guide and translator, and a gallery of other original characters. Journey along as the Rabinowitzes-despite kidnappings, betrayals, midnight escapes, and secret liaisons-follow an uncertain path to inspiration, redemption, and ultimately a new start.
Fusing the very different cultures of South and North America ... [follow] Gabriel through the challenges of a Jewish childhood in a profoundly Catholic country, the self-doubts and sexual awakenings of adolescence, and the thrills of establishing himself in a foreign land."--Page [4] cover.
Male-female relationships are at the center of this collection of thirteen stories. Roughly half the stories take place in the United States and half in Chile. A common thread runs through these keenly sensitive stories: the women take the initiative, and the men, willingly or unwillingly, follow their lead. At one end of the spectrum, Ari, 14 years old, is awakening to his sexuality, and at the other, Al, almost 70 and a former college professor, sees a potential affair with a young woman as his last opportunity to indulge his taste for sexual mischief. Along the way we also meet Dora, a free-spirited woman who, thirty years earlier, was in hot pursuit of Sergio, a married man, but who now holds a secret he is determined to uncover; Josh, home for the summer after having completed his freshman year in college, who is torn between family expectations and his attraction for Sofia, a Colombian immigrant; and a gallery of other unique characters.
Male-female relationships are at the center of this collection of thirteen stories. Roughly half the stories take place in the United States and half in Chile. A common thread runs through these keenly sensitive stories: the women take the initiative, and the men, willingly or unwillingly, follow their lead. At one end of the spectrum, Ari, 14 years old, is awakening to his sexuality, and at the other, Al, almost 70 and a former college professor, sees a potential affair with a young woman as his last opportunity to indulge his taste for sexual mischief. Along the way we also meet Dora, a free-spirited woman who, thirty years earlier, was in hot pursuit of Sergio, a married man, but who now holds a secret he is determined to uncover; Josh, home for the summer after having completed his freshman year in college, who is torn between family expectations and his attraction for Sofia, a Colombian immigrant; and a gallery of other unique characters.
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