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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Bearing the Bodyby Ehud Havazelet
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Growing up, Daniel seemed like a model son: a student activist blessed with easy charm and a fluid intelligence, who believed that he was heir to a better and brighter future. When that dream faded, he drifted from his family and into a rootless life, marked by wasted possibility. Bearing the Body begins when Daniel's younger brother, Nathan, a medical resident in Boston, learns that Daniel has died in San Francisco. The circumstances are unclear, and the police are involved. Nathan, who suffers from chronic anger and uncontrollable compulsions, travels to New York to inform their father, Sol, of Daniel's death. Sol is an Auschwitz survivor who has spent most of his adult energy compiling an archive of the fates of Hitler's victims. Due in part to this obsessive research, he has lost touch with his sons. He nevertheless decides to join Nathan on a trip to the West Coast, where both men hope to learn more about Daniel's untimely death. In San Francisco they meet Abby and her son, Ben, who were Daniel's companions in a life that his family never knew about or shared. A moving study of isolation and its costs, Bearing the Body is a book about history and memory, about family and loss. Most of all, it is a book about the past, which, far from receding quietly, weighs ever more heavily on those who hope to leave it behind. Review:"The narrative's disjointed nature reflects the unwanted intrusions of the past that serve to make the present unfathomable, but at times the interruptions seem to attenuate rather than intensify the ongoing drama." Library Journal Review:"Havazelet writes with almost hallucinatory acuity of the minds endless churning of memories, fears, and dreams, of how the body manifests the souls torment, and of the way the past is forever bleeding into the present, creating a darkly perceptive, transcendently rapturous drama of devastation and renewal." Booklist Review:"Havazelet writes with a kind of anatomical precision, his scalpel slicing at his characters to expose the dark reality beneath....The realization of a striking talent." The New York Times Synopsis:Havazelets poignant novel is a story about history and memory, family and loss. Most of all, it is a book about the past, which, far from receding quietly, weighs ever more heavily on those who hope to leave it behind. About the AuthorEhud Havazelet is the author of two critically acclaimed short-story collections: What Is It Then Between Us? and Like Never Before. He teaches at Oregon State University and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, and lives in Corvallis, Oregon. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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