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Holy Lands by Amanda Sthers

A witty epistolary novel, both heartwarming and heart-wrenching, about a dysfunctional family - led by a Jewish pig farmer in Israel - struggling to love and accept each other.

As comic as it is deeply moving, Holy Lands chronicles several months in the lives of an estranged family of colourful eccentrics. Harry Rosenmerck is an ageing Jewish cardiologist who has left his thriving medical practice in New York - to raise pigs in Israel. His ex-wife, Monique, ruminates about their once happy marriage even as she quietly battles an aggressive illness. Their son, David, an earnest and successful playwright, has vowed to reconnect with his father since coming out. Annabelle, their daughter, finds herself unmoored in Paris in the aftermath of a breakup.

Harry eschews technology, so his family, spread out around the world, must communicate with him via snail mail. Even as they grapple with challenges, their correspondence sparkles with levity. They snipe at each other, volleying quips across the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and Europe, and find joy in unexpected sources.

Holy Lands captures the humour and poignancy of an adult family striving to remain connected across time, geography and radically different perspectives on life.

Sthers, Amanda: - Romanciü¾Ž†”¼re, dramaturge et scü¾Ž–”¼nariste, Amanda Sthers est nü¾Ž–”¼e ü¾Œ†”¼ Paris en 1978. En 2006, sa piü¾Ž†”¼ce de thü¾Ž–”¼ü¾Œ¦”¼tre, Le Vieux Juif blonde, lui vaut un succü¾Ž†”¼s et une reconnaissance exceptionnels. Auteur de plusieurs romans, elle a rü¾Ž–”¼alisü¾Ž–”¼ en 2009 un long mü¾Ž–”¼trage intitulü¾Ž–”¼ Je vais te manquer.

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ISBN 13 9781635572834
ISBN 10 1635572835
Title Holy Lands
Author Amanda Sthers
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Year published 2019-01-22
Number of pages 176
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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