- Paperback: 250 pages
- Publisher: Hushion House (Mar 1 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1592641539
- ISBN-13: 978-1592641536
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,096,955 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The characters of these 13 stories are always just a little bit "other"--strangers struggling to belong or trying to understand the complexities of life. The opening story, "Return to Zion," concerns a Jew named Odysseus who plans an intricate odyssey to the Holy Land but never goes anywhere. In "Kafka in Bronteland," a woman lives in the moors that inspired Emily Bronte, reads Kafka with great passion, and bonds with the woman she tutors in English over a copy of the Qur'an. There are strange, stubborn family stories, such as "The Other Mr. Perella," in which a man searches for a family among those who coincidentally have similar names, and in the volume closer, "A Letter from Josef K.," a man serving a life sentence in prison finds solace in reading and gardening. Yellin's stories may be mostly just brief vignettes, but they are also haunting because the people in them are strangely familiar in their otherness. Regina Schroeder
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Book Description
Thirteen stories by the author of the critically acclaimed The Genizah at the House of Shepher address universal themes of yearning and displacement, love, loss and the struggle to belong.
A latter-day Jewish Odysseus spends his life planning an intricate journey to the Promised Land, while an English father stranded in London mourns for his faraway Italian son. A man without a past searches the world for potential relatives, while in the title story, a Jew and a Muslim cast adrift in a Yorkshire landscape find momentary sisterhood over a copy of the Koran.
Blending irony with pathos, the mythical with the mundane, Kafka in Bronteland gives voice to a rich mix of characters living outside traditional patterns of identity in a world of complex migrations and tumultuous change.
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Bravo !, Feb 7 2007
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This review is from: Kafka in Brontėland and other stories (Paperback)
Ms. Yellin has a keen ear for dialogue and a sharp eye for surroundings. It takes a vivid imagination to produce these truely captivating stories. This book cannot be distinguished by just one story alone. It is a book to own and read aloud and come back to over and over again. I really love this book.
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