Jewels and Ashes
by Arnold Zable
On This Page
Description
Romance and terror, light and shadow, replicas and originals, hover side by side, seeking reconciliation, while within me there is a sense of awe and a silent refrain- I am here, at last I am here; and it is far more beautiful than I had imagined. And far more devastating. Yet, somehow, never have I felt so much at peace.In the twenty-five years since it was published, Jewels and Asheshas become a classic, a book that has stood the test of time. Compelled by the momentum of memory, the show more unsettling fragments of ancestral stories told him as a child, Arnold Zable travels to the Eastern European countryside of his parents' remembrance, the terrain of his dreams and imagination, where he retraces the steps of the generations before him. Miraculously, it is this journey to the past that allows Zable to understand the present - the inner lives of those who, like his parents, survived the hatred but lost every trace of his family and former lives. Arnold Zable has articulated, exquisitely, the haunted consciousness of the next generation. An astonishing achievement, this is a lyrical, transcendent, luminous work. show lessTags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
Members
- Recently Added By
Lists
Holocaust
100 works; 13 members
Author Information
12+ Works 364 Members
Awards and Honors
Common Knowledge
- Important places
- Poland
- Important events
- World War II; Holocaust
Classifications
- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 943.8 — History & geography History of Europe Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech, Poland, Hungary Poland
- LCC
- DS135 .P62 .B553 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Israel (Palestine). The Jews Jews outside of Palestine
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 111
- Popularity
- 290,005
- Rating
- (3.93)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 1
