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Cargando... A Blessing on the Moon (1997)por Joseph Skibell
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a startling Holocaust story. Right from the beginning the language grips you and grips you hard. Chaim Skibelski, a 60 year old Polish man, is shot along with hundreds of fellow Jews. He has been left to bleed out in a stinking heap. Murder doesn't turn out to be very peaceful for Chaim. As a ghost-like entity caught between Life and The World to Come, he is condemned to roam with his former rabbi-turned-talking-crow, Rebbe. Together they are in an alternate afterlife trying to find purpose. That is the burning question. Why were they left behind? When Skibelski returns to his small Polish village he finds it overrun with non-Jews. They have moved into his house dragging their prejudices behind them. Dear readers beware: while Skibell's writing sometimes evokes magical imagery, the time frame is dark and tragic so definitely expect violence, destruction and decay. It is at once gory and gorgeous. The worms crawl in. The worms crawl out. Skibelski continuously bleeds from the bullet holes. His face is half missing. Corpses and his family and friends rot and stink and fall apart like a zombie movie. While listening to this on cd I was taken aback when Skibelski started to bleed from his anus. Fear not, dear readers. You get used to it. You will even learn to laugh at it. In all honesty, I could see this as a Tim Burton film. There is sex and even humor amid the putrid. One of my favorite scenes was when Skibelski comes across a decapitated German soldier trying to kill him again. Yes, you read that right. Skibelski kicks the soldier's head down a hill all the while arguing with the soldier about why he doesn't need to die again. The dialogue is to die for (pun totally intended).
In A Blessing on the Moon, Joseph Skibell has created a kind of extended fable, with strong elements of fantasy and the grotesque. This proves a remarkably effective way of dealing with a subject, the reality of which is too horrible for most of us to grasp: the murder of Europe's Jews in the Holocaust. Premios
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HTML: Joseph Skibell's magical tale about the Holocaustâ??a fable inspired by factâ??received unanimous nationwide acclaim when first published in 1997. At the center of A Blessing on the Moon is Chaim Skibelski. Death is merely the beginning of Chaim's troubles. In the opening pages, he is shot along with the other Jews of his small Polish village. But instead of resting peacefully in the World to Come, Chaim, for reasons unclear to him, is left to wander the earth, accompanied by his rabbi, who has taken the form of a talking crow. Chaim's afterlife journey is filled with extraordinary encounters whose consequences are far greater than he realizes. Not since art Spiegelman's Maus has a work so powerfully evoked one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century with such daring originality No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This, I soon discover is a truly horrifying and imaginative Holocaust novel. It turns into a fable (or maybe not?). In any case, it is totally different from any other wartime novel I have ever read.
One of the characters I loved from this book was the Rebbe...who became a crow! His idea was to take all of the Jews who were able to come back from the dead to The World to Come (that is, if there is/was/will be such a place. Who knows?)
I'd rather not give away the rest of this story. Should you usually opt out of reading Holocaust literature, you might want to give this book a try as it's not violent and is extremely creative. ( )