

Sinossi
- ISBN: 8860885302
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 240
- Data di uscita: 07-04-2011
Recensioni
The title is misleading. Yes, this is a love story, but the love that develops between Ernst and Irena is not sudden nor is it romantic. As he is dying, Ernst discovers “a reservoir of living water within him.” Irena’s devotion to him is “the gateway to life.” Observing her serenity... her living life Leggi tutto
What makes this short novel special is its portrayal of a fresh sort of relationship, between two people — an educated man in his 70s and an uneducated woman in her 30s — with apparently opposite relationships with dead parents that have limited their lives in different ways. Their relationship brin Leggi tutto
This novel is written with few characters and a relatively spare setting. The effect is a tightly focused novel drawing subtle lessons and parallels. Silence plays the role of shadow character, distilled into the shape and weight of human history. For some, silence is the language of the sorrowful. F Leggi tutto
Ernst is a 70-year old Jewish man, a refugee from Europe, living in Israel several decades after World War II. Back in the 1930’s in Romania, he was a strident young communist who had rejected his family and his heritage. As part of the revolutionary vanguard, he and his young comrades torched “bour Leggi tutto
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