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Aryeh Lev Stollman

Författare till The Far Euphrates

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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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Verk av Aryeh Lev Stollman

The Far Euphrates (1997) 192 exemplar
The Illuminated Soul (2002) 99 exemplar
Im Spiegel meiner Seele (2002) 1 exemplar
Il ‰lontano Eufrate (1999) 1 exemplar

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Födelsedag
1954
Kön
male
Nationalitet
Canada
Födelseort
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Bostadsorter
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Yrken
neuroradiologist
Organisationer
Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
Priser och utmärkelser
Chaim Potok Literary Award (2003)
Kort biografi
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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Surprising, well-written story well-described by the other reviews.

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]
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raizel | 3 andra recensioner | Feb 23, 2014 |
Who is the Illuminated soul? The initial answer is that it is Eva Laquedem, who appears at the home of Adele Ivri and her two sons in Windsor, Ontario. She is a refugee from Nazi Europe, carrying with her a famous illuminated manuscript, the Augsburg Miscellany. Eva takes the boys and Adele into the rarefied world of ancient and exquisite beauty, but also the need to guarantee the progeny of beautiful objects. But Eva herself presents a command performance by her sheer entry into a room, and captures everyone who looks at her into her special world. She does pine the possible loss of her father, for whose knowledge she is on a complex quest, and is the reason for her travels in Canada.

Asa, the brother of Joseph, who narrates the novel, may have an illuminated soul. He suffers from a slowly developing blindness. Eva is albe to affirm to affirm his special quality as a human being and he seems to have a character full of simplicity and goodness that one might associate wih a good soul. He is able to draw and very accomplished at it, and his life possesses a worthwhile quality to it.

Adele may have become illuminated, as she performs research across the river in Detroit for Eva, because Eva has developed a passport problem. Adele is widowed, bright, devout but closed in. But she is transformed by Eva when she begins to discover her own talents in baking and and then is able to set up her own business.

Perhaps even the narrator is illuminated in the relaying of the life of Eva and theose who are transformed by her. We as readers may allow ourselves to be transformed and allow ourselves to produce our illuminated life.
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vpfluke | 2 andra recensioner | May 2, 2012 |
Stollman's soft musical voice belies the monstrous, inhuman truth lying below the surface. The novel describes the lives of 2 Jewish families in post-WWII Canada; the rabbi of the local congregation, his wife and son, Alexander, and the other, the cantor and his wife. The cantor and his wife are like a second set of parents to Alexander. How do people live normally with a horrendous truth? How far can one go to protect a child from the truth? Is it better for the truth to be released?

Stollman handles language magically to create a word melody filled with the love, agony, psychology and spiritualism inherent in Jewish life.

Excellent and amazing!
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Bookish59 | 3 andra recensioner | Mar 30, 2012 |
These were very interesting, well written stories with excellent character development. I enjoyed his topics and his inclusion of science in many of the stories. I'm looking forward to reading more of him. The title story is about a scientific couple with an autistic child. The wife returnd to Israel to prevent the dismantling of one of the settlements, but is unsuccessful. I cared about many of the characters of this book.
 
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suesbooks | May 12, 2011 |

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