Five Amber Beads is the story of two men whose lives are woven together as they seek to discover the truth about their pasts. Charley Bernstein works in the London art world and is tracing a family history erased by the Holocaust. In his possession is a diary written by a relative in a labour camp during the Third Reich, and Charley must follow the threads leading from its haunting pages to his own present. In New York an old man is found lying semiconscious on the pavement. There are no witnesses to what has happened to him and he has no form of identification. When he wakes up in a hospital bed he finds he doesn't recognise the city or his own skin. In a state of total amnesia, he must embark on a struggle to regain his memory. When fate brings these two men together they find themselves linked by a unique friendship. Their journey takes them from America to the Middle East and England in an enthralling and moving novel that addresses the nature of identity and belonging.
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
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Height: 238 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
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978-94-93418-20-2 (9789493418202)
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Richard Aronowitz works in the international art world, he has one son and lives in Oxford. His debut novel, Five Amber Beads, told the story of his mother's Jewish family during and after the Holocaust and was published by Flambard in 2006. Richard's second novel, It's Just the Beating of My Heart, featured an alcoholic American art dealer in the idylls of the Cotswolds and it came out with Flambard in 2010. His third novel, An American Decade, focused on ten years in the life in New York of the German singer who may well have been the author's grandfather and it was published by Headline Accent in 2017. Richard's debut poetry collection, Life Lessons, was published by Palewell Press in 2019. His new novel, Night Comes Down, about the coming of the railways to a remote part of England in the 1840s, is due out from Guernica Editions on 1 September 2025.
