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Bezig met laden... Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial (2011)door Janet Malcolm
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  gjky | Apr 9, 2023 |   No es una novela, es la crónica de este juicio que Malcolm escribió para The New Yorker. Suelta los datos, describe lo que ve, y remata la jugada con finos análisis que nunca juzgan a los protagonistas del asunto, sino a todo el sistema que sostiene la sociedad que habitamos. (  ) Orellana_Souto | Jul 27, 2021 | Chule | Mar 29, 2020 |  ) sparemethecensor | Feb 22, 2016 | Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial tells the story of the trial of Mazoltuv Borukhova for the murder of her ex-husband Daniel Malakov, a trial that hit the newspapers because the couple were part of a small community of Bukharan Jews. Borukhova and Malakov had an acrimonious divorce, in which the point of contention was custody of their daughter. While Malakov was fine with Borukhova keeping primary custody, the law guardian hired to represent the child disliked Borukhova and was able to get primary custody awarded to Malakov. Borukhova grew increasingly desperate and is alleged to have hired a hit man to kill her husband. Janet Malcolm covered the subsequent court case for The New Yorker, along the way speaking to as many of the people involved as she could. The culture of the Bukharan Jews, Russian-speaking immigrants who are considered outsiders even among the predominantly Jewish population of Forest Hills in Queens. Malcolm is curious and interested about their lives and they respond to her interest by speaking with her. While the book doesn't answer the question of why or if she did it, it does look at why a woman would behave in such an off-putting way as to alienate the people who make decisions about custody and how this whole mess has affected their daughter. ( )3  RidgewayGirl | May 30, 2015 |
 he "human tendency" to be seduced by coherent narratives and charismatic narrators, including ourselves, is the screw that turns in almost all of Janet Malcolm's work, from her early writing on psychoanalysis to 2007's Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice. Malcolm has made a career out of exposing our impulse towards self-deception, particularly when practised by those of us in pursuit of "pure" representations of reality. What she reveals is the reliance of factual accounts – whether produced by reporters, biographers, diarists or criminals mounting their own defences – on the conventions of fiction. The moment when we affirm the objectivity and accuracy of our vision is the moment we reveal our blind spots, to which no person or profession is immune. “Iphigenia in Forest Hills” casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell — the kind of spell to which Ms. Malcolm’s admirers (and I am one) have become addicted. It is possible to remark that this is not among her very best books and yet observe that it delivers an extraordinary amount of pleasure. Malcolm persuasively argues that Borukhova did not receive a fair trial, and that the fatally flawed children’s-guardian system harmed Michelle far more than it helped her (her “Dickensian ordeal” included a stint in foster care). True, the book is imperfect—but by design. Every decision or omission that gives it its wobbliness or rough-hewn quality has been made to answer some larger philosophical question about reportage. If the book ends (as most of Malcolm’s books do) too abruptly, it’s because she’s won’t abide the artificiality of narrative neatness.  She has chosen to write about the trial of someone who is guilty, not to investigate some terrible miscarriage of justice (though Borukhova, represented by the celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz, is currently appealing against her sentence). Nevertheless, it does its work. The unease grows, like a shadow, with the result that her essay's after-effect is entirely disproportionate to its brevity. The disquiet stays with you. It's there in the pit of your stomach. Onderscheidingen
"Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell - the kind of spell to which Ms. Malcolm's admirers (and I am one) have become addicted."-Dwight Garner, New York Times "She couldn't have done it and she must have done it." This is the enigma at the heart of Janet Malcolm's riveting new book about a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention. The defendant, Mazoltuv Borukhova, a beautiful young physician, is accused of hiring an assassin to kill her estranged husband, Daniel Malakov, a respected orthodontist, in the presence of their four-year old child. The prosecutor calls it an act of vengeance: just weeks before Malakov was killed in cold blood, he was given custody of Michelle for inexplicable reasons. It is the "Dickensian ordeal" of Borukhova's innocent child that drives Malcolm's inquiry. With the intellectual and emotional precision for which she is known, Malcolm looks at the trial-"a contest between competing narratives"-from every conceivable angle. It is the chasm between our ideals of justice and the human factors that influence every trial-from divergent lawyering abilities to the nature of jury selection, the malleability of evidence, and the disposition of the judge-that is perhaps most striking. Surely one of the most keenly observed trial books ever written, Iphigenia in Forest Hills is ultimately about character and "reasonable doubt." As Jeffrey Rosen writes, it is "as suspenseful and exciting as a detective story, with all the moral and intellectual interest of a great novel. "Iphigenia in Forest Hills is another dazzling triumph from Janet Malcolm. Here, as always, Malcolm's work inspires the best kind of disquiet in a reader-the obligation to think." -Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court "A remarkable achievement that ranks with Malcolm's greatest books. Her scrupulous reporting and interviews with protagonists on both sides of the trial make her own narrative as suspenseful and exciting as a detective story, with all the moral and intellectual interest of a great novel." -Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This book is not really about the murder, nor the question of guilt and innocence, but more about the alien legal process that the immigrant Borukhova found herself plunged into, and which consistently found against her because her coldness and reticence upset US lawyers, judges and juries. Malcolm's account of the trial highlights a consistent lack of fairness towards her, but she ensures that the victim's family also get to tell their side of the story, and that their dead son is not forgotten in this story.
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