Aryeh Lev Stollman
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Aryeh Lev Stollman is a neuroradiologist and the author of two novels, The Illuminated Soul and The Far Euphrates, which was an American Library Association Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Review Recommended Book of the Year, and the winner of both a Wilbur Award and a Lambda Literary Award. visa mer He lives in New York City visa färre
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- Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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- Chaim Potok Literary Award (2003)
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- Aryeh Lev Stollman's first novel, The Far Euphrates (Riverhead/Penguin Putnam Inc.) is an American Library Association Notable Book of 1997, a Los Angeles Times Book Review Recommended Book of the Year and winner of a Wilbur Award and a Lambda Award. The New York Times Book Review has called The Far Euphrates "radiant . . . remarkable both for Stollman's eloquently understated prose and for the ease with which he constructs his artful plot." The Far Euphrates has been translated into German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Hebrew.His second novel, The Illuminated Soul, is the winner of Hadassah Magazine's 2003 Harold U. Ribalow Prize. The Boston Sunday Globe calls The Illuminated Soul, "an admirable novel of ideas . . . profound." Foreign rights for The Illuminated Soul have been sold to Germany (Droemer), Holland (Meulenhoff), and Italy (Mondadori). Stollman's short fiction and essays have appeared in Story, American Short Fiction, The Yale Review, The Southwest Review, and The Forward. His short story collection "The Dialogues of Time and Entropy" was published in February 2003.
In 2003 Stollman was the first recipient of the Chaim Potok Literary Award given by the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Philadelphia.
His story "Lotte Returns!" was commissioned by National Public Radio and broadcast on their Hanukkah Lights 2008 series.
Dr. Stollman is a neuroradiologist at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. [from www.aryehlevstollman.com]
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The narrator's father, a pulpit rabbi, has spent much of his life working on his magnum opus, inspired by his grandfather's journal of a trip to Mesopotamia. This book is one of three stories I've recently come across in which someone devotes much of his life to an old manuscript. [The others are A.N.Wilson's Wise Virgin (1982) and the movie, Footnote (2011).]
Some quotes that I especially liked said by the narrator's father to the narrator:
"This seeking after patterns is nothing more than man's natural yearning to know God. It underlies every pursuit of knowledge." [p. 43]
"Our forefathers, strangely enough---and this I believe is the real root of mankind's problem---originally came not from Kana'an, not from an earthly Jerusalem, but from the far Euphrates with its source in Eden, from an impossibly remote and primordial home. We cannot forget it, or even find it again. I believe this fact has afflicted us to the present day." [p. 163]
After telling the Midrash that explains why the moon is smaller than the sun: "God regretted that He punished the moon and so He set the stars in attendance to appease her." [p. 164]… (mer)