Eva Salomon's War - Gabriella Goliger

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Résumé :
At the age of twelve, Eva Salomon becomes disillusioned about all the isms raging through her world. Crushed by her father's rigid Jewish orthodoxy and by the cruelties of a burgeoning Nazi regime, she renounces all belief systems, and even belief itself. Five years later, when she and her father leave Germany for Palestine, she's still a skeptic, yet hopeful about a fresh start in an unborn country. But her yearning for unfettered freedom soon puts her at odds with collective pressures in the new-old homeland. Eva finds love with a man who is anything but kosher. Duncan Rees is a British constable in the Palestine Police Force. As a gentile, he's taboo even in the secular circles of a society forging its new nationalist identity. What's more, he represents the British Mandate government, a regime seen to increasingly impede Zionist dreams for a Jewish state in the contested country. And so the relationship hits obstacles right from the start. Set during complex upheaval of Palestine in the 1930s and '40s, Eva Salomon's War tells of the struggle to find a faith that doesn't blind, a love that doesn't lie and solid human truths in the midst of ideological ferment. ...

Biographie:
Gabriella Goliger's first book, Song of Ascent, a collection of linked short stories, won the 2001 Upper Canada Writer's Craft Award. Her novel Girl Unwrapped won the City of Ottawa 2011 Literary Award for Fiction. She was co-winner of the 1997 Journey Prize for short fiction and a finalist for this prize in 1995, and she won the Prism International award in 1993. She has also been published in a number of journals and anthologies including Best New American Voices 2000, Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada, and The New Spice Box: Canadian Jewish Writing.

Sommaire:
At the age of twelve, Eva Salomon becomes disillusioned about all the isms raging through her world. Crushed by her father's rigid Jewish orthodoxy and by the cruelties of a burgeoning Nazi regime, she renounces all belief systems, and even belief itself. Five years later, when she and her father leave Germany for Palestine, she's still a skeptic, yet hopeful about a fresh start in an unborn country. But her yearning for unfettered freedom soon puts her at odds with collective pressures in the new-old homeland. Eva finds love with a man who is anything but kosher. Duncan Rees is a British constable in the Palestine Police Force. As a gentile, he's taboo even in the secular circles of a society forging its new nationalist identity. What's more, he represents the British Mandate government, a regime seen to increasingly impede Zionist dreams for a Jewish state in the contested country. And so the relationship hits obstacles right from the start. Set during complex upheaval of Palestine in the 1930s and '40s, Eva Salomon's War tells of the struggle to find a faith that doesn't blind, a love that doesn't lie and solid human truths in the midst of ideological ferment. ...