The Wanting

The Wanting
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Publisher : Schocken
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780805212570
ISBN-13 : 0805212574
Rating : 4/5 (574 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Wanting by : Michael Lavigne

Download or read book The Wanting written by Michael Lavigne and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Not Me, this powerful novel about an Israeli father and his daughter brings to life a rich canvas of events and unexpected change in the aftermath of a suicide bombing. In the galvanizing opening of The Wanting, the celebrated Russian-born postmodern architect Roman Guttman is injured in a bus bombing, causing his life to swerve into instability and his perceptions to become heightened and disturbed as he embarks on an ill-advised journey into Palestinian territory. The account of Roman’s desert odyssey alternates with the vivacious, bittersweet diary of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Anyusha (who is on her own perilous path, of which Roman is ignorant), and the startlingly alive witnessings of Amir, the young Palestinian who pushed the button and is now damned to observe the havoc he has wrought from a shaky beyond. Enriched by flashbacks to the alluringly sad tale of Anyusha’s mother, a famous Russian refusenik who died for her beliefs, The Wanting is a poignant study of the costs of extremism, but it is most satisfying as a story of characters enmeshed in their imperfect love for one another and for the heartbreakingly complex world in which that love is wrought.


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