Real Time

Autori

• Kass Pnina Moed Kass

Parametri

• 186 pagine
• 7 ore di lettura

• Letteratura ebraica
• Letture obbligatorie
• Narrativa
• Prosa storica
• Young Adult

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Set in contemporary Israel, this powerful novel is narrated in real time by many voices: Sixteen-year-old Thomas, from Berlin, seeking answers to questions about his grandfather, a Nazi officer in World War II. Vera from Odessa, reclaiming her Jewish heritage. Baruch Ben Tov, a Holocaust survivor. Sameh Laham, illegally employed at a diner. His boss. Samehs friend Omar. A Palestinian doctor in an Israeli hospital. A mother. A soldier. A newscaster . . . Minute by minute, hour by hour, these lives and many others unfoldand then intersect in one violent moment on a highway outside Jerusalem. Each is drastically and irrevocably changed. What do secrets, hopes, dreams, and future plans mean after such a catastrophe? Can what was destroyed be made whole again?

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2006

(In brossura)