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Moshe's Children presents the inspiring story of Moshe Zeiri, a
Jewish carpenter responsible for rescuing hundreds of Jewish
refugee children who had survived the Final Solution. During the
liberation of Italy, Zeiri, a volunteer in the British Army in
Italy, assumed responsibility for and vowed to help around seven
hundred Polish, Hungarian, Russian, and Romanian children. Although
these orphans of the Shoah had been deprived of a family, a home,
and a language and were irreparably robbed of their past, they were
able to rebuild their lives through Zeiri's efforts as he founded
the largest Jewish orphanage in postwar Europe in Selvino, Italy,
where he began to rehabilitate the orphans and to teach them how to
become citizens of the new nation of Israel. Moshe's Children also
explores Zeiri's own story from birth in a shtetl to his upbringing
and Zionist education, his journey to the Land of Israel, and his
work there before the war. With narrative verve and scholarly
acumen, Sergio Luzzatto brilliantly tells the gripping stories of
these orphans of the Holocaust and the good man who helped point
them to a real future.
Moshe's Children presents the inspiring story of Moshe Zeiri, a
Jewish carpenter responsible for rescuing hundreds of Jewish
refugee children who had survived the Final Solution. During the
liberation of Italy, Zeiri, a volunteer in the British Army in
Italy, assumed responsibility for and vowed to help around seven
hundred Polish, Hungarian, Russian, and Romanian children. Although
these orphans of the Shoah had been deprived of a family, a home,
and a language and were irreparably robbed of their past, they were
able to rebuild their lives through Zeiri's efforts as he founded
the largest Jewish orphanage in postwar Europe in Selvino, Italy,
where he began to rehabilitate the orphans and to teach them how to
become citizens of the new nation of Israel. Moshe's Children also
explores Zeiri's own story from birth in a shtetl to his upbringing
and Zionist education, his journey to the Land of Israel, and his
work there before the war. With narrative verve and scholarly
acumen, Sergio Luzzatto brilliantly tells the gripping stories of
these orphans of the Holocaust and the good man who helped point
them to a real future.
In this "gripping and personal view of war" (Andy McNab, author of
Bravo Two Zero), a celebrated photographer crafts a powerful memoir
about his experiences in some of the world's most dangerous,
war-torn areas-and his terrifying capture by Syrian rebels in 2013.
For a decade, Jonathan Alpeyrie-a French-American
photojournalist-had ventured in and out of more than a dozen
conflict zones. He photographed civilians being chased out of their
homes, military trucks roving over bullet-torn battlefields, and
too many bodies to count. But on April 29, 2013, during his third
assignment to Syria, Alpeyrie became the story. For eighty-one days
he was bound, blindfolded, and beaten by Syrian rebels. Over the
course of his captivity, Alpeyrie kept his spirits up and strove to
find the humanity in his captors. He took part in their activities,
taught them how to swim, prayed with them, and tried learning their
language and culture. He also discovered a dormant faith within
himself, one that strengthened him throughout the ordeal. The
Shattered Lens is a firsthand account that "reads like a thriller"
(The New York Journal of Books) by a photojournalist who has always
answered the next adrenaline-pumping assignment. Yet, during his
headline-making kidnapping and "for all his suffering, Alpeyrie
expresses, in words and color photographs, the compassion of a
global citizen seeing beyond his personal terror and into the
nuances of human interactions" (Booklist).
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The Lovers (Hardcover)
Paolo Cognetti; Translated by Stash Luczkiw
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R466
R380
Discovery Miles 3 800
Save R86 (18%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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From the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains
comes a story of love and community in the wild beauty of the
Italian Alps The remote alpine village of Fontana Fredda lives by
the seasons. These quiet, complex rhythms appeal to Fausto, who has
left the city of Milan behind, and with it his relationship. He
takes a job as chef in a little restaurant and entrusts himself to
new beginnings. Silvia is also seeking change: her sights are on
the glaciers where, she has read, climbing a thousand metres
towards the sky is equivalent to travelling ten times the same
distance to the north. She is in search of her personal North Pole.
When Fausto and Silvia meet one night, their story begins: a tender
story of love and renewal; of the community that sustains them; and
of lives humbled by the implacable strength and beauty of the
mountains. As intimate in focus as it is epic in scope, The Lovers
is a luminous meditation on our quest to understand our place in
one another's lives, and in the magnificence of the world around
us. Praise for The Eight Mountains: 'Exquisite... A rich, achingly
painful story' Annie Proulx 'Enchanting' Guardian 'Brilliant' New
York Times
A tense, provocative and nuanced novel about a rape accusation in
an idyllic commune I was in my sixth month when the girl came
knocking. The girl came empty handed. On the threshold, her hair
down, her jeans tight. 'Are you the professor's wife?' the girl
asked me. 'I have to speak to you,' she said. 'The professor raped
me,' the girl said.
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The Lovers (Paperback)
Paolo Cognetti; Translated by Stash Luczkiw
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R320
R256
Discovery Miles 2 560
Save R64 (20%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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From the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains
comes a story of love and community in the wild beauty of the
Italian Alps The remote alpine village of Fontana Fredda lives by
the seasons. These quiet, complex rhythms appeal to Fausto, who has
left the city of Milan behind, and with it his relationship. He
takes a job as chef in a little restaurant and entrusts himself to
new beginnings. Silvia is also seeking change: her sights are on
the glaciers where, she has read, climbing a thousand metres
towards the sky is equivalent to travelling ten times the same
distance to the north. She is in search of her personal North Pole.
When Fausto and Silvia meet one night, their story begins: a tender
story of love and renewal; of the community that sustains them; and
of lives humbled by the implacable strength and beauty of the
mountains. As intimate in focus as it is epic in scope, The Lovers
is a luminous meditation on our quest to understand our place in
one another's lives, and in the magnificence of the world around
us. Praise for The Eight Mountains: 'Exquisite... A rich, achingly
painful story' Annie Proulx 'Enchanting' Guardian 'Brilliant' New
York Times
An awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on
earth, from the author of international bestseller The Eight
Mountains Paolo Cognetti marked his 40th birthday with a journey he
had always wanted to make: to Dolpo, a remote Himalayan region
where Nepal meets Tibet. He took with him two friends, a notebook,
mules and guides, and a well-worn copy of The Snow Leopard. Written
in 1978, Matthiessen's classic was also turning forty, and Cognetti
set out to walk in the footsteps of the great adventurer. Without
Ever Reaching the Summit combines travel journal, secular
pilgrimage, literary homage and sublime mountain writing in a short
book for readers of Macfarlane, Rebanks and Cognetti's own
bestseller, The Eight Mountains. An investigation into the author's
physical limits, an ancient mountain culture, and the magnificence
of nature, it is an awestruck love letter to one of the most
spectacular places on earth.
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