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Bezig met laden... On Division: A Novel (origineel 2019; editie 2019)door Goldie Goldbloom (Auteur)
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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. Un livre magnifique, absolument magnifique. Surie est un personnage terriblement humain, doux et complexe. ( ) I had just finished watching Shtisel on Netflix and wanted more of the community and the traditions when I started reading this novel. We meet Surie who is part of the Williamsburg Jewish community, about to become a great-grandmother. As the novel opens, we find Surie waiting for the bus home having just confirmed that she is pregnant with twins. We hear all of Surie’s thoughts: how and when is she going to tell her husband? What is she going to do? I found myself on the edge of my seat for almost the entire book; This story welcomes you into a hidden world; forces you to feel all the emotions and contradictions of living a life and leaves you embracing all the joys and deep sorrows of a life well lived. I had just finished watching Shtisel on Netflix and wanted more of the community and the traditions when I started reading this novel. We meet Surie who is part of the Williamsburg Jewish community, about to become a great-grandmother. As the novel opens, we find Surie waiting for the bus home having just confirmed that she is pregnant with twins. We hear all of Surie’s thoughts: how and when is she going to tell her husband? What is she going to do? I found myself on the edge of my seat for almost the entire book; This story welcomes you into a hidden world; forces you to feel all the emotions and contradictions of living a life and leaves you embracing all the joys and deep sorrows of a life well lived. Here's the flip side of Unorthodox: the woman who stays. Mother of ten, grandmother of thirty two, almost a great-grandmother. Married at 16, deeply settled into and revered in her Chassidic community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn - and Surie Eckstein is pregnant again, with twins, at age 57. Medical or religious miracle and embarrassing and disastrous for the status of her family, Surie cannot bring herself to tell her loving husband Yidel, a Torah scribe. She chooses her non-Jewish midwife as her confidante and stretches the boundaries of life outside her home, learns English and anatomy, and risks losing everything. Surie's melange of courage and foolishness make this an endearing portrait of a woman who daringly reaches beyond her cocoon. The author is divorced, has eight children of her own and is a member of the Chassidic community of Chicago. What a book. Sort of sad and depressing. Was aware of what was going to happen in this life of a Chassidic woman who was pregnant with twins but refused to tell her family, especially her husband. How can a woman go 9 months without doing so and noone noticing? Her daughter thought she was kidding when she tried to tell her daughter and she thought she was just fat w/extra layers. It was a frustrating and hard book to read in my opinion and how could she keep such a secret and tell the mid-wife at the hospital she went for pre-natal care? geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Through one woman's life at a moment of surprising change, the award-winning author Goldie Goldbloom tells a deeply affecting, morally insightful story and offers a rare look inside Brooklyn's Chasidic community. In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just a block or two up from the East River on Division Avenue, Surie Eckstein is soon to be a great-grandmother. Her ten children range in age from thirteen to thirty-nine. Her in-laws, postwar immigrants from Romania, live on the first floor of their house. Her daughter Tzila Ruchel lives on the second. She and Yidel, a scribe in such demand that he makes only a few Torah scrolls a year, live on the third. Wed when Surie was sixteen, they have a happy marriage and a full life, and, at the ages of fifty-seven and sixty-two, they are looking forward to some quiet time together. Into this life of counted blessings comes a surprise. Surie is pregnant. Pregnant at fifty-seven. It is a shock. And at her age, at this stage, it is an aberration, a shift in the proper order of things, and a public display of private life. She feels exposed, ashamed. She is unable to share the news, even with her husband. And so for the first time in her life, she has a secret--a secret that slowly separates her from the community. Goldie Goldbloom's On Division is an excavation of one woman's life, a story of awakening at middle age, and a thoughtful examination of the dynamics of self and collective identity. It is a steady-eyed look inside insular communities that also celebrates their comforts. It is a rare portrait of a long, happy marriage. And it is an unforgettable new novel from a writer whose imagination is matched only by the depth of her humanity. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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