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Illuminating Love
Hazel Frankel
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Description for Illuminating Love
Paperback. Pogroms and the Holocaust, xenophobia and the Bush War provide the backdrop for Illuminating Love. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 314. 272 pages. Pogroms and the Holocaust, xenophobia and the Bush War provide the backdrop for Illuminating Love. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 136 x 210 x 20. Weight: 314.
Pogroms and the Holocaust, xenophobia and the Bush War provide the backdrop for Illuminating Love. The novel entwines the journeys of two Jewish women, Judith, an immigrant to South Africa, forced to leave her home and family in Eastern Europe before World War II, and Cally her granddaughter living in contemporary South Africa. While rendering Judith's poems in calligraphy, Cally uncovers her family's history and roots in the shtetls of Lithuania and she memorialises this past. Judith's love poems also serve as a counterpoint for Cally's own circumstances. Trapped in a cycle of abuse, she also inscribes a Ketuba, the ... Read more
Pogroms and the Holocaust, xenophobia and the Bush War provide the backdrop for Illuminating Love. The novel entwines the journeys of two Jewish women, Judith, an immigrant to South Africa, forced to leave her home and family in Eastern Europe before World War II, and Cally her granddaughter living in contemporary South Africa. While rendering Judith's poems in calligraphy, Cally uncovers her family's history and roots in the shtetls of Lithuania and she memorialises this past. Judith's love poems also serve as a counterpoint for Cally's own circumstances. Trapped in a cycle of abuse, she also inscribes a Ketuba, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd South Africa
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN
9781431402670
SKU
V9781431402670
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About Hazel Frankel
Hazel Frankel lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, close to where she was born. She is an artist, calligrapher and teacher, currently registered for a doctorate in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. A collection of poetry, Drawing from Memory, was published by Cinnamon Press (UK) in 2007. Counting Sleeping Beauties, her first novel, was runner up for the EU Award ... Read more
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