Dropped from Heaven: Stories
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (995 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805242481 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Old Fashioned in the Best Sense of the Term Diane B. Wilkes This book of connected tales that take place in the Bene Israel community in India offers a sense of timelessness, despite the stories being grouped by date. Judah's writing is deceptively simple, like the Tao te Ching, and she creates a community in the same way Damon Runyon evokes Broadway hustlers and Giovanni Guareschi's Don Camillo novels give us an aperture to view the lives of the people who live on the River Po.Having know. night-time reading Glen J Grossman Pros: it is written in snipets; you can read a chapter every night because a chapter is only 20 pages. And the stories are very interesting.Con: what links all these stories together? Why are some stories included and others excluded? I would like to see the author tie all the stories together.. Noteworthy Short Stories That Expose Jewish Life in India After living in India, I continue to be interested in learning more about Indian Jewish culture. Dropped From Heaven, a collection of short stories, provides a unique approach to understanding the traditions of the Bene Israel Jews who live in India. Using a fictional town as a backdrop, Sophie Judah created 19 interconnected short stories that highlight different aspects of India life from 1890 to 2000. The reader can see how Jew
Bride-to-be Sunita in "Dreams" wants a life of more than domestic servitude. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly The 19 stories in Judah's debut explore the little known Jewish community of Bene Israel in India over the course of more than a century. . In "Hannah and Benjamin," Hannah's parents refuse to allow her to marry a man from a lower class, but they eventually relent when she protests by remaining in her bedroom for a year. (Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The obscure intersection of India and Judaism provides Judah with rich material, though the finished products aren't always polished. Though Judah touches on a wide array of topics in these vignette-like stories of life in the fictional town of Jwalangar—the fusion of Jewish and Indian (both Hindi and
And in “Old Man Moses,” a lonely and imperious old man is visited by his Israeli grandson and the young man’s girlfriend, and finds that there is still a place in his heart for love. In “Dropped from Heaven,” a mother with three unmarried daughters at home and a copy of Pride and Prejudice in her handbag springs into action when she hears that two single brothers are coming to town looking for brides. A marvelous fiction debut–a collection of richly told, deeply moving stories about everyday life within a community of Indian Jews as its ancient culture confronts the modern world.In the mythical village of Jwalanagar, the Jewish traditions of the Bene Israel have survived for more than two thousand years, but the twentieth century brings with it modernity and cataclysmic political change. In “Nathoo,” a kindly Jewish soldier and his wife adopt a Hindu boy orphaned in the post-independence violence of 1947–with disastrous results. In these nineteen interconnected stories–by tur