The Greatest Jewish-American Lover in Hungarian History
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A collection of stories that fuses the sensibilities of Gabriel Garcia Marque, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Henry James and Philip Roth Set in venues as diverse as Israel, Hungary, Paris, Cambridge and, even, Austin, Texas A diverse set of characters, including a narrator who marries a French wife and discovers there is more to a cross-cultural marriage than the cinema suggests and a married older woman who seduces, first, a psychologically fragile adolescent boy and then, in quick succession, his handsome and athletic younger brother. Author is an accomplished poet, translator, nonfiction and fiction writer Author had NEA Fellowship and numerous other literary awards, including the Isabella Gardner Poetry Prize and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Fiction, judged by Elie Wiesel and Thomas Keneally
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THE GREATEST JEWISH AMERICAN LOVER
IN HUNGARIAN HISTORY
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Etan had read the play several times—Simon, in fact, had read it as well, (albeit reluctantly; it had been assigned in his Central European Literature class) and looked upon the evening ahead with a dour countenance and a sagging spirit. But, he thought to himself, after all the obvious pain he had caused his mother and brother, going along was the very least he could do. What, after all, was a mere wasted evening in the greater scheme of things?
It was in this manner that Daphna Flinker and David Yogev, after Daphna had put the children to bed, found themselves alone in the Yogev’s large kitchen later that evening, enjoying a quiet supper of Norwegian salmon, potato kugel, and green beans, expertly prepared in advance by Sarah, and a fine bottle of Gewurztraminer from the nearby Golan Heights Winery, owned by a friend of David’s who had made his fortune in South African diamonds.
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