Sarit Yishai-Levi
Auteur van The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
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- Werken
- 5
- Leden
- 171
- Populariteit
- #124,899
- Waardering
- 3.7
- Besprekingen
- 9
- ISBNs
- 14
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- 1
Eliya is the daughter. She is a real daddy's girl and resents her mother. She doesn't understand her mother or why her father put up with her for the years of their marriage. Issues with her parents go on the back burner after she falls in love. Her husband is a narcissistic author who is living in Paris while he writes his great novel. He expects Eliya to take care of his every need even though he often treats her poorly. He finally admits to her, at a cafe in Paris, that he is in love with someone else and she needs to leave Paris and go home. She is devastated and can't function in life at all. She's living in her parents' house and spending most of her time in bed. It's only after her attempted suicide that she realizes it's time to get help to learn how to survive in life without her husband. Though her father is worried and tries to take care of her, her mother Lily seems to have little regard for her daughter or her pain. As we get Lily's story, the reasons for her attitude toward her family become more apparent. Lily was left at an orphanage the day she was born. She was raised by the nuns in a strict non emotional setting and always wished that she knew more about her mother. When she learns that she is probably Jewish, she leaves the orphanage and tries to live life on her own. She marries and when her beloved son dies during his first year, she's devastated. She wanted to give her son all of the love and caring that she never received from her own mother and can't fathom life without her son. When Eliya is born, she basically turns her care over to her husband as she continues to mourn her son. As Eliya grows up, she has little understanding of the trials of her mother's life but she knows that she and her mother are nothing alike and that there is no common ground between them. After her suicide attempt, Eliya begins to learn more about her mother and Lily begins slowly begins to understand her daughter and they begin to attempt to develop a mother-daughter relationship. Will they be able to become a family or is it too late in their lives to make drastic changes? Can they let go of their pasts, forgive each other and go into the future together?
Other than issues with the translations, this was an interesting book to read. It was interesting to see the growth in both characters as they worked to become a family and find happiness.… (meer)