{"product_id":"9780908011209","title":"Jewels and Ashes","description":"Author: Zable, Arnold\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780908011209\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribe Publications\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Feb 2001\u003cbr\u003ePages: 216 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomance and terror, light and shadow, replicas and originals, hover side by side, seeking reconciliation, while within me there is a sense of awe and a silent refrain: I am here, at last I am here; and it is far more beautiful than I had imagined. And far more devastating. Yet, somehow, never have I felt so much at peace.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the twenty-five years since it was published, \u003ci\u003eJewels and Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e has become a classic, a book that has stood the test of time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Compelled by the momentum of memory, the unsettling fragments of ancestral stories told him as a child, Arnold Zable travels to the Eastern European countryside of his parents' remembrance, the terrain of his dreams and imagination, where he retraces the steps of the generations before him. Miraculously, it is this journey to the past that allows Zable to understand the present - the inner lives of those who, like his parents, survived the hatred but lost every trace of his family and former lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Arnold Zable has articulated, exquisitely, the haunted consciousness of the next generation. An astonishing achievement, this is a lyrical, transcendent, luminous work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A very special book, evincing such superlative narrative skill, such an ability to evoke time, space and character that, for once, I have to agree with what the publisher says on the cover. \u003ci\u003eJewels and Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e is indeed an astonishing achievement.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Full not of anger and pity but witnessing and self discovery ... Zable makes both ordinary and awful moments come alive, often destined to sear the reader's memory.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A beautiful, moving book, always searching, sometimes exuberant, often uplifting ... It is characterised not only by a sense of tragedy, but also by a sublime irony, and a rumble of cosmic humour. He confronts suffering but refuses easy sentimentality. He writes so well he is under some sort of obligation to us all to write much more.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48135613120670,"sku":"UBD-9780908011209","price":26.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780908011209.jpg?v=1786625851","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780908011209","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}