Antiquities - Hardcover

Ozick, Cynthia

 
9780593318829: Antiquities
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 059331882X ISBN 13: 9780593318829
Verlag: Knopf, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings

In Antiquities, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage--in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie--he reconstructs the passions of a childhood encounter with the oddly named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil who claims descent from Egypt's Elephantine Island. From this seed emerges one of Cynthia Ozick's most wondrous tales, touched by unsettling irony and the elusive flavor of a Kafka parable, and weaving, in her own distinctive voice, myth and mania, history and illusion.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

CYNTHIA OZICK, a recipient of both the PEN/Nabokov Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for fiction and a National Book Critics Circle winner for criticism, is the author of Trust, The Messiah of Stockholm, The Shawl, and The Puttermesser Papers. She lives in New York.

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Verlag
Knopf
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
059331882X
ISBN 13 
9780593318829
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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