The Golems of Gotham
- List Price: $16.99
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Harpercollins
- Publish date: 02/01/2003
Description:
Inspired by Jewish mysticism and folklore, The Golems of Gotham tells the story of Oliver Levin, a bestselling gothic mystery writer and his teenage daughter, Ariel, who suddenly emerges as a precocious klezmer violinist and amateur kabbalist. Ariel tries to rescue her father from both writer's block and blocked emotions by summoning the spirits of his dead parents, both Holocaust survivors and suicide victims. By accident, Primo Levi and Jerzy Kosinski, among others, are resurrected as well. The Golems of Gotham is a wildly imaginative exploration of how the Holocaust became a part of our shared consciousness, and what will happen once it retreats from the center of our collective memory.
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A novel of love and longing, The Golems of Gotham pays tribute to the way imagination is used in the spirit of repair. It also contemplates the price that artists pay when they look too deeply into the heart of atrocity, illuminating how the mind conjures both its own prison and liberation.
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