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The Book of Abraham
Editore: Henry Holt & Co, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 0030718872ISBN 13: 9780030718878
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Lucy Albanese (Design); Andrew M. Newman (Jacket Design); Jean Gaumy-Magnum (Front Jacket Photo) (illustrator). (illustratore). 1st American Edition. 722 pages. 235 x 160 mm. Hard bound in publisher's black cloth and red paper covered boards. Illustrated end papers by map. DJ is complete and is not price clipped - $19.95 Historical fiction covers 2000 years & 100 generations of one Jewish family. he Book of Abraham is a dazzling work of historical fiction which spans two thousand years and a hundred generations of one Jewish family. It is also the fulfillment of a spectacular undertaking, for it is the history of Marek Halter's own family which has been traced. The book opens in 70 A.D. The legionnaires of the Emperor Titus are laying waste to Jerusalem after long years of siege and, after great hesitation and anguish, the scribe Abraham flees the burning city. It ends in 1943 when the printer Abraham Halter - the author's grandfather - perishes in the flames of the Warsaw Ghetto. In each of the intervening generations, at least one man follows the calling of the initiator of the family scroll. Scribe turns printer, and from the fifteenth century onwards The Book of Abraham is based on the Halter family records, revealing extraordinary documentary evidence about their lives. The descendants of the first Abraham travel from Alexandria to Rome, to Carthage and Constantinople, to Toledo, Troyes and Strasbourg, to Soncino, Amsterdam and Paris, and finally to Poland - places as vividly drawn as the characters involved. The result is a magnificent and biblical tale of ordinary men and women - peasants and bankers, workers and merchants, poets and scholars - whose lives, governed throughout by religion and exile, are recounted against the background of the great events of the past. As history and as fiction, The Book of Abraham is an epic both in its scope and its execution.
