Nine stories examine the barriers that shape modern relationships between lovers, parents and children, and friends

What is it then between us?: Stories (Collier fiction)

Literature & Fiction

Havazelet, Ehud

Short Stories & Anthologies

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Bearing the Body: A Novel

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year At the start of Bearing the Body, Nathan Mirsky learns that his older brother has died in San Francisco, apparently murdered after years of aimlessness. On the spur of the moment, Nathan leaves his job as a medical resident and heads west from Boston to learn what he can about Daniel's death. His father, Sol--a quiet, embittered Holocaust survivor--insists on coming along. Piecing together Daniel's last days, Nathan and Sol are forced to confront secrets that have long isolated them from each other and to being a long process of forgiveness.

United States

Picador

A collection of thematically linked short stories presents the story of a young boy forced to make a terrible choice between his own life and that of his brother in the face of Nazi occupation and the tale of a woman who discovers that a murder occurred across the street from her New York apartment

Like Never Before

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Growing up, Daniel seemed like a model son: a student activist blessed with easy charm and a fluid intelligence, who believed that he was heir to a better and brighter future. When that dream faded, he drifted from his family and into a rootless life, marked by wasted possibility. Bearing the Body begins when Daniel's younger brother, Nathan, a medical resident in Boston, learns that Daniel has died in San Francisco. The circumstances are unclear, and the police are involved. Nathan, who suffers from chronic anger and uncontrollable compulsions, travels to New York to inform their father, Sol, of Daniel's death. Sol is an Auschwitz survivor who has spent most of his adult energy compiling an archive of the fates of Hitler's victims. Due in part to this obsessive research, he has lost touch with his sons. He nevertheless decides to join Nathan on a trip to the West Coast, where both men hope to learn more about Daniel's untimely death. In San Francisco they meet Abby and her son, Ben, who were Daniel's companions in a life that his family never knew about or shared. A moving study of isolation and its costs, Bearing the Body is a book about history and memory, about family and loss. Most of all, it is a book about the past, which, far from receding quietly, weighs ever more heavily on those who hope to leave it behind.

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

A stirring portrait exploring the intersections of three generations of an Othodox Jewish family. David Birnbaum is a middle-aged man at the crossroads--of youth and old age, of Othodox Judaism and assimilation, of the well-worn past and an uncertain future. He is also at the dramatic center of this sensative, often funny chronicle of three generations of a family straining to hold together in the face of changing cultures and shifting fortunes. Throughout this extraordinary book, David struggles with the mixed loyalties he has felt since childhood and that continue to haunt his present and future. Capturing the hopes and conflicts of a Jewish family, from its most assimilated to its most Orthodox members, Like Never Before exudes on every page a poignancy and truthfulness that will print themselves indelibly on readers' minds.

Contemporary

Anchor

Nine stories examine the barriers that shape modern relationships between lovers, parents and children, and friends

What Is It Then Between Us

Scribner

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What is it then between us?: Stories (Collier fiction)

Bearing the Body: A Novel

Like Never Before

Bearing the Body: A Novel

Like Never Before

What Is It Then Between Us