And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories of a Family , Second Printing
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (554 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1439223033 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 250 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Louis B. Kravitz said Deja Vu. Ms. Dawid's work tugs at the heart of every immigrant family and explores in beautiful detail the generations left behind. It is a historical travelogue that sleekly moves from era to place until the reader becomes enthralled with every character.Her descriptive words are like a magnet drawing th. Buddenbrooks for the Modern Age Leslie A. Rodd Annie Dawid has created a collection of moving stories that follows a Jewish family for 100 years from Bukovina in 1900 to a family reunion in Paris in 2000, gathering in the family lines that were scattered in the twentieth century diaspora that followed the Holocaust. With a deft touch that is . We are more than the Holocaust. Rebecca Shine I spent all weekend reading "And Darkness Was Under His Feet" and Iloved it. I loved how many kinds of Jews there were, how many distinctpersonalities, how many divergent journeys.Sometimes I think we and others forget that we are not just the peopleof the Holocaust. That we have lived and contin
It is his immediate family that bears the brunt of the Holocaust. The rift between father and sons was never healed, though the families of each of these brothers would survive and prosper, despite the first World War, the Holocaust and the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe.Annie Dawid's historical family saga, And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories of a Family, is a magnificent epic tale. He will grow up without his brothers. They adopt new customs, learn new languages, and even serve in the army, only to find that they remain a people apart.Only David, living in Dresden, has remained religious. Sons and daughters of Abraham and Isaac escape, either through cleverness or sheer luck, ending up in France, China and England.In the post-war era, the unlucky ones are trapped behind the Iron Curtain, arbitrarily separated from loved ones and freedom. Twenty-some stories later, th
AND DARKNESS WAS UNDER HIS FEET is Annie Dawid?s third volume of fiction, after YORK FERRY: A NOVEL (Cane Hill Press, 1993) and LILY IN THE DESERT: STORIES (Carnegie- Mellon University Press, 2001). She writes essays and reviews for High Country News, The Jewish Review and The Denver Post. Recent short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train Stories and Driftwood. A photographer and rugmaker, Annie sells he
"This sprawling, warm-hearted story spans six continents and one hundred years, from the 1900 Sabbath table of Reizl and Lazar Solomon and their young sons, in Radautz, Bukovina, to a glorious millennial reunion in Paris. "The final story, set in Neuilly, a suburb of Paris, is an amazing set piece. Here is Hans, a grandson of Reizl and Lazar, 'resident alien' of Tientsin, North China,1939; Berthold, another grandson, on day 555 of his imprisonment in a Communist prison cell, 1950; great-granddaughters Toni and Marguerite, 'les Belles Jumel