The Rape of Tamar

Dan Jacobson

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

The Electronic Elephant

This travel book combines autobiography, travel, history, politics and philosophy. The Great North Road skirts the northwest border of South Africa, running through Northern Cape Province, Boputhatswana, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia. This book follows the author on a journey that passes the length of this historically and symbolically important route, exploring its history and development.

Children's Books

Penguin Uk

The Orthodox rabbi Heshel Melamed's sudden death by heart attack in 1919 set his widow and children free to leave Lithuania. In this deeply personal memoir, his grandson journeys to the nation after the fall of Communism, and his story is both a philosophical tableau of secularism, religion, and family and a communion with history's darkness-and, where possible, its illumination.

Heshel's Kingdom : A Family, a People, a Divided Fate

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Books Canada, Limited

Rape of Tamar

Genre Fiction

Deutsch

In 1919 Heshel Melamed, a rabbi in the small provincial Lithuanian town of Varniai, presented his wife and their nine children with his greatest and most unexpected gift: at the age of fifty-three he died, suddenly, of a heart attack. Heshel's widow, children and grandchildren were thus set free to establish themselves safely seven thousand miles away in South Africa. As a result, they were spared the Nazi invasion and the tidal wave of killing that was to engulf virtually the entire Jewish population of Lithuania twenty years later.  Prompted by a few of his grandfather's possessions that had come down to him across the decades - a pair of spectacles, an address book, a single photograph - Dan Jacobson tells the story of Heshel and his descendants.   Everywhere he encounters puzzles, ambiguities and fateful turning-points in the history of nations and individual characters alike.  Why, in the course of a short life, did Heshel change his identity not one, but twice? What manner of violent death eventually came to the aunts, uncles and cousins left behind in Lithuania? What kind of lives opened up before those members of the family who had settled in South Africa? In dealing with those questions, Jacobson also raises the most puzzling question of all: the nature of the physical and moral inheritance bequeathed by the past to each of us.

Heshel's Kingdom

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

The Beginners - In spite of his age, Avrom Glickman was still upright and slender. The hair on his head was dark and curling, that of his full, spade-shaped beard was white; and the contrast made his face seem strong and decisive. But there was no strength in his gray, shortsighted eyes; only a weak bewilderment and amiability. His single leather bag had been stowed in the cabin that he was to share with eleven others during the journey to Southampton; now he and his sons, Meyer and Benjamin, stood on the deck of the Union Castle liner. It was a bright, clear day. From the boat Cape Town looked like a village, dwarfed by the huge bulk of Table Mountain immediately behind it. The town was no more than a scattering of iron roofs, of church steeples, of gables, of trees; then the mountain rose, at first gradual in its slope and faintly green, but soon rising sheer, precipitous and bare, slashed here and there by great gullies which zigzagged down its flanks. Darker and lighter shades of brown yielded to the blue of distance and height, and then abruptly the ascent was cut off by the wide, flat top of the mountain. Beyond it a few white clouds, and the sun shining. The three men leaned in silence over the rail, staring down at the confusion of Cape Colored porters and white passengers, occasionally glancing at the stillness and emptiness of the mountain above. The brothers looked much alike, neither taking after his father. They were both thickset, the elder more powerful in build than the younger, who was more a boy than a man; they both had heavy features and protruding lower lips and wore their hair brushed directly back from their foreheads. ...

The Beginners

Contemporary

The MacMillan Company

Kenneth, Cape Coloured but able to pass as white, comes to England to become a barrister, financed by Miss Bentwisch, a wealthy South African who sees potential in the gardener's son. In London he meets Isabel, another of her South African proteges, except that Isobel is white and rich.

Evidence of Love

Allison Busby

The Trap and A Dance in the Sun bring together Jacobson's initial two novels – stories of racial confrontation and social injustice on the South African veld. In The Trap, relations between the white farmers and their black workers are brought on to a sinister and harrowing conclusion whilst A Dance in the Sun sees two young innocent bystanders becoming embroiled in a long-standing family saga. These stories have retained their freshness and their power to move the reader.

The Trap / a Dance in the Sun (AfricaSouth Paperbacks)

Literary

David Philip, Publishers

<p>This unique guide is loaded with sample questions, charts, formulas, and frameworks covering everything from accounting concepts to bond pricing, interest and exchange rate. Job seekers can prep for their tough finance interviews with investment banks and investment management firms.</p>

Vault Guide to Finance Interviews (Vault Career Library)

Business & Money

D. Bhatawedekhar

Hussam Hamadeh

Finance

Vault Reports Inc

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