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Red Shoes for Rachel, Sandler’s award-winning collection of three
novellas, features tightly wound tales that seamlessly incorporate
diverse genres, including magic realism, satire, and autobiography,
and profound psychological profiles to create touching portrayals
of the human experience. Zumoff’s translation of Sandler’s
original Yiddish collection makes the J. I. Segal Award–winning
volume available to English readers for the first time. In the
collection’s eponymous novella, Rachel, a daughter of Holocaust
survivors raised in Brighton Beach, encounters a Moldovan Jewish
immigrant divorcee as she is tending to her disabled, elderly
mother along the Coney Island boardwalk. As the two begin a
relationship, the story reveals their past and the commonalities
between two children of Holocaust survivors raised in very
different societies. In the novella Karolina Bugaz, an exhausted
Moldovan Jewish immigrant architect leaves his wife and newly
religious son behind to go on a cruise to a mysterious island,
which may just be a direct voyage through space and time into his
past. In the volume’s most acclaimed story, Halfway Down the Road
Back to You, an elderly Moldovan Holocaust survivor in Israel
separated from her children by emigration must confront her past as
her failing mind begins to blur the boundaries between her daily
life and the horrors of war sixty years before. The novella was
adapted by the author into an acclaimed play, which has been staged
in the United States, Belgium, and France.
Red Shoes for Rachel, Sandler's award-winning collection of three
novellas, features tightly wound tales that seamlessly incorporate
diverse genres, including magic realism, satire, and autobiography,
and profound psychological profiles to create touching portrayals
of the human experience. Zumoff's translation of Sandler's original
Yiddish collection makes the J. I. Segal Award-winning volume
available to English readers for the first time. In the
collection's eponymous novella, Rachel, a daughter of Holocaust
survivors raised in Brighton Beach, encounters a Moldovan Jewish
immigrant divorcee as she is tending to her disabled, elderly
mother along the Coney Island boardwalk. As the two begin a
relationship, the story reveals their past and the commonalities
between two children of Holocaust survivors raised in very
different societies. In the novella Karolina Bugaz, an exhausted
Moldovan Jewish immigrant architect leaves his wife and newly
religious son behind to go on a cruise to a mysterious island,
which may just be a direct voyage through space and time into his
past. In the volume's most acclaimed story, Halfway Down the Road
Back to You, an elderly Moldovan Holocaust survivor in Israel
separated from her children by emigration must confront her past as
her failing mind begins to blur the boundaries between her daily
life and the horrors of war sixty years before. The novella was
adapted by the author into an acclaimed play, which has been staged
in the United States, Belgium, and France.
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