Five American women come together briefly in 1962 in Cali, Colombia, beneath the hill that dominates the city.      * Nora, the archeologist, who doesn't relate to other women.      * Alicia, who knows she's beautiful and can attract any man.      * Melanie, who doesn't recognize her own beauty and intelligence.      * Seraphia, whose French husband is barred from the United States.      * Charlotte, who is on her third affair.  Their interwoven stories of birth, death, love, and loss bring each to an awareness and resolution that one critic has called "as satisfying as if I just had a full meal."  Reviews:  "Carr uses a strobe light to capture woman in her infinite variety." —Chicago Tribune  "Her stories are simple, crafted, entertaining, and immediate." —Los Angeles Times  "There is real talent at work here." —The New Republic  "Carr's insights are often breathtaking, poetric in nature but also strongly based in real life." —The Monitor  "Carr has a rare gift for preserving moments of fear, of love, of compassion that stay with the reader long afterward." —The El Paso Times

Beneath the Hill

Literature & Fiction

Carr, Pat

Contemporary

Voices From My Retreat

<p>Forty-five Holocaust survivors in a small town in Ukraine would have been forgotten but for an American woman, Cora T. Schwartz. Cora first visited Mogelov with her companion, Rudy, who spent four years in a Nazi labor camp in the region. Although he is gone, Cora carries on their commitment to "never forget" these elderly citizens. The Forgotten Few is a small book with a big message conveyed in both text and photographs. Despite suffering and destitution, the seniors' faces light up when Cora arrives - laden with medicines and donations. Beauty is within them. Describing Frida Shvarzbahn, for example, the author writes, "Here is a woman...who has survived all the horrors of the camps, the ghetto and the war… and yet ...manages to create beautiful poetry. She sits in her little room, rations out 5 grams of sugar a day for her tea and writes about love."</p>

The Forgotten Few (English and Russian Edition)

Cora T Schwartz

History

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