Edges: O Israel, O Palestine, by Leora Skolkin-Smith
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“EDGES is an elegantly written, quite moving novel that has a lot to say about love, identity, history and the meaning of nationality. The book is worth reading alone for its superb language, but it is gripping and unforgettable as well in its story telling and evocation of place and emotions. It is a wonderful novel by an author with a quite accomplished voice and style, one well deserving a wide and receptive audience.” – Oscar Hijuelos, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel, THE MAMBO KING SINGS SONGS OF LOVE “EDGES is a dark and penetrating look at pre-1967 Israel and Palestine through the eyes of a 14 year old…well-written, powerful in both imagery and subject matter.” –Jewish Book World “The author’s vivid sense of landscape, her gift for identifying with both mother and daughter, Arab and Jew, gives the novel a unique sense of balance and brings the reader, regardless of political conviction into sympathy with this portrait of a vanished Jerusalem.” – Mark Mirsky, Fiction “EDGES is an elegant and moving novel. Leora Skolkin-Smith has that rare gift of the writer who can convey the sensibility – the essence of a place and its people – with precision and clarity. A provocative debut.” – Katharine Weber, author of TRIANGLE, THE LITTLE WOMEN, and THE MUSIC LESSON It's summer, 1963. Fourteen-year-old Liana travels to Jerusalem, accompanied by her older sister and larger-than-life mother. The trip takes her from a sheltered life in Westchester County, NY to the hot, bustling, and thoroughly confusing landscape of the Middle East, where Jewish and Arab cultures exist side by side in an uneasy truce. She soon drifts away from her colorful family and their over-the-top relatives, and starts a furtive, increasingly passionate, secret relationship with the runaway son of an American diplomat. Together, they abscond to neighboring Palestine, where they hide in an abandoned monastery, while a frantic search for the two missing youngsters gets under way on the other side of an increasingly hostile border. Both a deeply sensual story and a vivid depiction of a world growing increasingly fractured, EDGES is a masterfully written triumph of nuanced storytelling. FINALIST NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS FINALIST INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
Edges: O Israel, O Palestine, by Leora Skolkin-Smith- Amazon Sales Rank: #1831252 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-01
- Released on: 2015-06-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review “Edges is an elegantly written, quite moving novel that has a lot to say about love, identity, history and the meaning of nationality. The book is worth reading alone for its superb language, but it is gripping and unforgettable as well in its story telling and evocation of place and emotions. It is a wonderful novel by an author with a quite accomplished voice and style, one well deserving a wide and receptive audience.”– Oscar Hijuelos, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel, The Mambo King Sings Songs Of Love“Edges is a dark and penetrating look at pre-1967 Israel and Palestine through the eyes of a 14 year old…well-written, powerful in both imagery and subject matter.”– Jewish Book World“The author's vivid sense of landscape, her gift for identifying with both mother and daughter, Arab and Jew, gives the novel a unique sense of balance and brings the reader, regardless of political conviction into sympathy with this portrait of a vanished Jerusalem.”– Mark Mirsky, Fiction“Edges is an elegant and moving novel. Leora Skolkin-Smith has that rare gift of the writer who can convey the sensibility – the essence of a place and its people – with precision and clarity. A provocative debut.”– Katharine Weber, author of Triangle, The Little Women, and The Music Lesson“Skolkin's brilliant debut novel is a hypnotic meditation on the ever-changing boundaries of love and need. A coming-of-age story of the bond between a young American and her powerful mother, etched in a wartime Mideast as shifting and dangerous and mysterious as the Israeli desert.”– Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You and Is It Tomorrow“Edges is a novel told with restraint and poetic precision...memorable (for the) sense of place that Ms. Skolkin-Smith has achieved – the sunny and scary Jerusalem and countryside – and the hope, love, hate and fatalism of the groups, Palestinian and Israeli, living amongst and apart from each other...”– Robert Whitcomb, The Providence Journal
From the Publisher Edges was awarded a stipend from the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's National Schools Program, was a Bloomsbury Review "Favorite Book of the Last 25 Years," and a selection of both the National Women's Studies Association Conference and the Jewish Book Council. The book has also been optioned for a feature film to be shot on location in Jerusalem and will be available in an audio edition, narrated by stage and screen actress Tovah Feldshuh, next month.
From the Author "Edges" is soon to be a Feature Film, shot in location by Triboro Pictures
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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful. Gorgeous novel, replete and finest kind By KatPanama When I finished reading "Edges" I whispered to myself -- whoa, I hope she's got another one in the hopper because I very much want to hear more from this particular and fine voice. Israel and Palestine -- they would seem to be our eternally counterpointed voices -- but maybe not. Kudos to Skolkin-Smith for her vision. The voices here are finest kind. It's a 4.5 rating for me.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful. Beautifully written By Sharon Katz It's the early 1960s, Liana Barish is fourteen years old and her family is coming unglued. She grew up in a normal suburb of Westchester County, New York, but then her father committed suicide. Liana longs for her father but her mother warns her never to bring his name up for discussion. Her sister, Ivy separates herself from the family whenever possible, even refusing to sit near or look at them in public.Her mother, Ada, had grown up in Israel but never spoke of her past. Suddenly, she decides to drag Liana and her sister back to visit her homeland.Liana and her mother are very close, too close as her mother's large presence sometimes embraces her too hard, almost merging with Liana, taking over. Once they get to Israel, Liana begins to step out of her mother's overwhelming shadow. As she understands snippets of her mother's still very secret past and examines the strange customs of the people living in Israel, Liana begins to open her eyes and ears to the world surrounding her. Two important news items on every Israeli's mind at the time is the fight for water between Israel and Jordan and the story of an American Diplomat's missing son, a young man in his twenties.As Liana begins to painfully feel the need to separate from her mother, she plans her escape and secrets clothing and loose change aside for a quick run to Paris, a place her father loved. One day, right outside her aunt's home, Liana is witness to the shooting of an innocent Arab boy in a skirmish between sides. Coming to the child's rescue is the missing American Diplomat's son who had simply set off on his own to travel the Middle East.Before she quite understands what she's doing, Liana runs away with the Diplomat's son across the Israeli border. Even though she's only fourteen, he guides her through her sexual awakening and they wind up living together in abandoned places in lonely areas, surviving with the help of the poorer Arab people. As Liana experiences more of life outside her mother's influence, she truly begins to grow up.EDGES is a beautifully written, highly introspective novel that involves the readers senses to the fullest. We can feel, touch, taste, smell and experience the emotions on every page. How the new, unaccustomed life and world in Israel affects Liana is made both poignant and painfully real. Liana's relationship with her mother, Ada, is presented to the readers in all its complexities and the author, Leora Skolkin-Smith, holds nothing back in permitting the readers to live through every moment with the characters within its pages.EDGES is a book not to be missed.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A powerful and enjoyable read By Eva Ing "Edges: O Israel, O Palestine" is a well-written and powerful novel. I started reading it earlier, and then it was borrowed. As a result, I purchased another one.The story focuses mainly on Liana and her mother. Earlier on we learn about her mother's complicated background. On the surface, Liana's life is typical of a young American teenager. Shortly, she becomes involved with William, a diplomat's son, who has left his family.Liana and William survive and make do with very basic needs while living in a monastery. Surprisingly, he carries on his travels without her in the end. As she returns to her grandmother's home, she observes "the path cut through a dense grove of pine trees and I followed it, riding the bright sunlight breaking through branches. The morning had started over the fields. There were some dried blood orange trees on the bank and the cows and the goats walked loose, grazing on the yellow grass. Almonds fell from the dwindling almond trees along the road toward the Allenby Bridge, the way to Amman."Thank you GoodReads for the book.
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