The Sorrowful Eyes Of Hannah Karajich

Ivan Olbracht

The Sorrowful Eyes Of Hannah Karajich

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The Sorrowful Eyes of Hannah Karajich is a lyrical, deeply moving story of love and the pain of emancipation, set in the now vanished world of rural East European Jewish village life. Hanna is the most beautiful girl in all Polona, a Hasidic community in the remote province of Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia. Involvement in the exciting new movement of Zionism takes her away to a commune in a nearby town. But there she meets and falls in love with the strangely named Ivo Karajich: a Jew, yet not a Jew. The agonizing drama that follows, plants into her beautiful almond-shaped eyes the hard grain of sorrow that her children, too, will inherit.

Olbracht's novella is both a great love story and a marvellous portrait of a world that modernity threatened and Hitler destroyed.

Auteur

Ivan Olbracht

Ivan Olbracht (1882-1952) was a Czech novelist and journalist. His best known novels carry Freudian overtones. Although not his homeland, Ruthenia, the easternmost, backward and rural part of what was then Czechoslovakia motivated Olbracht to create sophisticated contemporary ballads, modern myths with folkore elements.

Titel
The Sorrowful Eyes Of Hannah Karajich
Auteur
Vertaler
Iris Urwin Lewitová
Prijs
€ 17,95 excl. BTW
ISBN
9789639116474
Uitvoering
Paperback
Aantal pagina's
200
Taal
Engels
Publicatiedatum
Afmetingen
12.6 x 21 cm
Serie
CEU Press Classics
Categorie
Literary Studies and History
Discipline
Taal en Literatuur
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