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Carregando... Day For Night (2010)de Frederick Reiken
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I have completely lost interest. I do not care what happens to any of these people. ( ) Wow. Because yeah, Frederick Reiken's DAY FOR NIGHT is one of those kinda books, the kind that just leaves you speechless with awe and admiration. Spanning several decades and countries, its cast of characters continues to expand and become more complex as the story swoops and spirals from 1980s Florida, New Jersey and Utah to Nazi Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Israel, and back again, as it follows the lives of Holocaust survivors. The Weatherman underground appears periodically, in the person of a mysterious, tall woman of multiple identities, pursued over decades by a tenacious FBI agent. An evil cult abuses children, causing lasting and horrific harm. A Jewish grandfather in a New Jersey nursing home (Max Rubin, a character from Reiken's previous novel, THE LOST LEGENDS OF NEW JERSEY), marries Doris, a widow, and former resistance fighter with some dark secrets of her own. An Israeli animal specialist in the Negev desert struggles with traumatic memories and unwanted public attention. All of these and other seemingly disparate characters share connections that only become obvious as the reader moves deeper into the pages of this deeply researched and exquisitely formed novel. I was completely caught up and kept turning pages, reading deep into the night. Wow! Yeah. Reiken is simply one helluva talent, and has been recognized as just that from the publication of his first novel, THE ODD SEA, over twenty years ago. I've read all three of his books now, and will continue to follow his career with great interest. This one? Wow! My highest recommendation. - Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"If you look hard enough into the history of anything, you will discover things that seem to be connected but are not." So claims a character in Frederick Reiken's wonderful, surprising novel, which seems, in fact, to be determined to prove just the opposite. How else to explain the threads that link a middle-aged woman on vacation in Florida with a rock and roll singer visiting her comatose brother in Utah, where he's been transported after a motorcycle injury in Israel, where he works with a man whose long-lost mother, in a retirement community in New Jersey, recognizes him in a televised report about an Israeli-Palestinian skirmish? And that's not the half of it.In Day for Night, critically acclaimed writer Reiken spins an unlikely and yet utterly convincing story about people lost and found. They are all refugees from their own lives or history's cruelties, yet they wind up linked to each other in compelling and unpredictable ways that will keep you guessing until the very end. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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