Antiquities and Other Stories
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Edoardo Ballerini
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Saskia Maarleveld
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Cynthia Ozick
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From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings, now alongside four previously uncollected stories.
In Antiquities, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for 34 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.
Included alongside this wondrous tale, touched by unsettling irony and with the elusive flavor of a Kafka parable, are four additional stories in Cynthia Ozick's brilliant, distinctive voice, weaving myth and mania, history and illusion: The Coast of New Zealand, The Bloodline of the Alkanas, Sin, and A Hebrew Sibyl.
©2022 Cynthia Ozick (P)2022 Random House Audio
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Commentaires
“A delight.... Richly patterned and strongly colored.” (The New York Times)
“Ozick’s prose urges the breathless reader along, her love of language rolling excitedly through her sentences like an ocean wave. Ozick’s new novel, Antiquities, moves softly, with a tenderness and quiet intimacy.” (The New York Review of Books)
“Indisputable is Ozick’s exquisite artistry in rendering yet another resonant and unsettling tale.” (The Washington Post)