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Loading... Light Fellby Evan Fallenberg
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 As it stands, "Light Fell" is a brief but touching novel. Despite certain moments of unevenness, it raises brave questions about the nature of family and betrayal, rupture and healing.  It takes place, as does much contemporary Israeli fiction, in a world of constant argument and frustration, where, everyday life is fraught with disappointment and every personal decision could and probably will set off unanticipated clashes with other people’s cultural, religious or economic realities. In a world where disappointment and loss are seen as constants, resignation is the philosophical stance these characters prefer.  Evan Fallenberg’s elegant first novel, “Light Fell,” is itself full of substantive light. Light that is sometimes bent or deflected by the gravity of law and tradition, a difficult luminosity that in Fallenberg’s deft hands remains metaphorically complex.
Twenty years have passed since Joseph left behind his entire life--his wife Rebecca, his five sons, his father, and the religious Israeli farming community where he grew up--when he fell in love with a man, the genius rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Their affair is long over, but its echoes continue to reverberate through the lives of Joseph, Rebecca, and their sons in ways that none of them could have predicted. Now, for his fiftieth birthday, Joseph is preparing to have his five sons and the daughter-in-law he has never met spend the Sabbath with him in the Tel Aviv penthouse that he shares with a man--who is conveniently out of town that weekend. This will be the first time Joseph and all his sons will be together in nearly two decades. The boys' lives have taken widely varying paths. While some have become extremely religious, another is completely cosmopolitan and secular, and their feelings toward their father range from acceptance to bitter resentment. As they prepare for this reunion, Joseph, his sons, and even Rebecca, must confront what was, what is, and what could have been. No library descriptions found. |
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