![]() ![]() Life in the eighteenth century, torn between hunger, disease, murder and rape lies that kill, curses that float and debates about Aufklärung, when religious zeal morphs into political activism and the practice of law. Jacob and his daughter Eva Yente and Nahman and the heroes in the background, Hayah, Asher, and Thomas. 390)įrom Smyrna and Athos to Ivanie, across fluid Poland, Brünn (exact location), Vienna (exact location) and Offenbach to Paris in times of the French Revolution and the Supreme Court. ![]() Who was it who convinced us that being comfortable and familiar was so great? Only foreigners can truly understand the way things work. A person who is a stranger gains a new point of view, becomes, whether he likes it or not, a particular type of sage. Then a particular kind of wisdom awakens-an ability to surmise, to grasp the things that aren’t obvious. It is good not to be able to understand a language, not to know the customs, to glide like a spirit among others who are distant and unrecognizable. There is something wonderful in being a stranger, in being foreign, something to be relished, something as alluring as candy. Her protagonists always remain strangers. The Nobel laureate describes hundreds of characters, with even more names immerses in countless locations, languages, and creeds. A sweeping novel of 950 pages (!) which starts on page 960. ![]()
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