Andrew Foster Altschul
Auteur van Deus Ex Machina
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Andrew Foster Altschul is a Jones Lecturer and former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
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There is a passage of the book where Rabbi Eisen is first approached by Leonora after Shabbat services. Her description and his reaction are heartbreaking. It was his thirtieth anniversary with his wife and were celebrating by seeing Rigoletto. His empathy was so strong that he considered giving Leonora his ticket.
Rabbi Eisen and the Jewish congregation is connecting thread through the book. Towards the later section Leonora attends service and observes how the mainly Spanish congregation don’t understand Hebrew. They are faking it, playing their part. The realization brings an unexpected surge of binding. Incomprehension is makes her belong to them.
She privately talks to the rabbi about how she is fighting to feed the people of Lima that are oppressed by the government. She asks isn’t God supposed to help them? The rabbi responds with do you think you can take His Place?
The clever conceit of the book is how the author flips between the research about Leo and his personnel life and then tells the Leo story. It’s a hybrid of fiction and non-fiction.
Magnificent writing and propulsive moving ending
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