In 1974, a young Israeli student of archaeology takes charge of her first dig--to find the lives she digs up impinging on her own. In 1950, Hammama Madmoni, a new Yemeni Jewish immigrant to Israel, gives birth to a daughter in a hospital in Jerusalem. The child disappears, and she is told the child died. Twenty-four years later to the day, Orit Nussbaum sits beside the Holocaust-survivor who raised her in the same hospital. Orit is an archaeologist in graduate school neglecting her dig at Gibeah to do her duty by a mother who suffered too much from the horrors she saw in Auschwitz to be much of a nurturer. Orit, having visions of the ancient lives she is uncovering, struggles with the patriarchy of the field of her study and of the myths created then and now, colonization and her place in the world.
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Höhe: 228 mm
Breite: 153 mm
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978-1-913606-58-9 (9781913606589)
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Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Ann Chamberlin majored in Archaeology of the Middle East at the University of Utah. She spent a summer in Israel excavating the biblical city of Beersheva, traveling throughout the Holy Land. She has studied Hebrew, Arabic, Egyptian hieroglyphs and ancient Akkadian as well as English, French and German. Ann is the author of twenty published books, mostly historical novels, many set in the Middle East, including a trilogy published by Forge set in sixteenth- century Turkey. This trilogy, in translation, spent almost a year on the Turkish
bestseller list. Her most recent publication is CLOGS AND SHAWLS, a
memoir of her Yorkshire grandmother. She has also written many plays including JIHAD which won the best off-off Broadway new play of 1996 and which also received a production in Bogota, Colombia at a conference for theatre women for peace. She lives in an old farmhouse near Salt Lake City, except when she's in her bookshop at the Arizona Renaissance Festival. Or in Paris.
