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The Family Orchardby Nomi Eve
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Book DescriptionKnopf, 2000-09-26. Hardcover. Good. Good w/ Slight tilt: BIND: hardback ED: ex-library with typical identifiers DJ: [good] clean, straight, mylar covered. COVER: [good] clean, straight. SPINE: [good] clean, slight tilt. PAGES: [good] clean, straight, unmarked. JCC Book summaryTaking place over the sweep of 200 years and six generations, this memoir-like story chronicles the life of a Jewish family in Jerusalem. Two narrators alternate to tell the tale: Eliezer, whose story is strictly factual, and his daughter Nomi, who shares the author's name and whose storytelling style is distinctly more like that of a novelist.Media Reviews"Weaving together her characters' stories in a musical narrative full of recurring melodies and leitmotifs, Ms. Eve artfully shows how familial traits are handed down from father to son and mother to daughter, and how quirks of fate resurface from generation to generation....The later chapters...lack the ease and fluidity of their predecessors: it's as if the closer this author gets to present-day reality, the more self-conscious her writing becomes. Still, it's clear that Ms. Eve shares her female characters' talent for 'creative speech,' that she, too, is a storyteller of uncommon energy and poise." -- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "If [the novel] sounds far too clever, exquisitely self-conscious and intellectually pretentious, it is saved by Eve's startling, imaginative and allegorical writing, which sparkles and surprises and never settles for the predictable." -- Lore Dickstein, New York Times Book Review First LineEsther was pious but in a peripheral way. Publisher NotesFrom 1838 to the present day, this multigenerational debut novel chronicles nearly two hundred years in the lives of a family of immigrants in Jerusalem, capturing the love affairs, legends, family secrets, triumphs, and tragedies of six generations. Other Recommended Books
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