Product Details:
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Delta (August 10, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385323905
ISBN-13: 978-0733610639
Product Dimensions:
8.1 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Editorial Reviews Allegra Goodman remarkable novel interweaves the stories of the first three Orthodox Jewish families, each of which is caught between religious tradition and the secular world introduction to general organic and biochemistry torrent. The story takes place in the northern city of New York Kaaterskill, the mecca of cult Kirshner was solid introduction to general organic and biochemistry torrent. Model wife and mother of Elizabeth Shulman photographs of his community as a kind of Mont-Saint-Michel, an island connected to the two and separated from the outside world by the rising and falling tides. Fascinated by what is spiritually on the continent, it is behind the soothing rhythm of religious practice, even if it from a "desire as intense as prayer," was inspired to create something very special. Despite doubts think her husband does, as a shop catering to the "summer people" Kaaterskill - a community Goodman brings to life unforgettable. The Shulman "neighbor Andras Melish, a Hungarian who fled the Second World War and a vanished world of assimilated Jews in Europe is struggling to his young wife Nina Argentina to understand, including the need for tradition rises must every year. Rav Kirshner, the patient to decide which son will continue in his shoes. dedicated, hardworking, but Isaiah and his brother Jeremy brilliant but secular Andras and his daughter Nina befriends an Arab girl, while her daughter Elizabeth and Isaac dreams in the privacy of Israel in the. Meanwhile, around the year watching the inhabitants of the city, the Orthodox newcomers with astonishment and dismay casual. As they proved in a warm and funny 1996 short story collection, is the Family Markowitz, Goodman, an unparalleled observer of human nature. Here it is diagrams with the quiet confidence of the daily rhythms Kaaterskill: meals prepared and eaten, observed the holy days of the ebb and flow of marital life Goodman receives all the important details right, the dialogue of his children, for example, is infallible More importantly, it brings the question of.. . religious life seriously and subtlety rarely found in recent fiction saga is the word again and again to describe to the Markowitz family Kaaterskill Falls applied, which is no less relevant -.. This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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