Gravitational Fields: A Novel Of Peacetime And War

A novel set in the time period 1937 through 1983, approximately, beginning in pre-World War II Poland, continuing on in post-war Germany, then Israel, and after 1957 in Canada, with final section set again in Israel in 1983 approximately. Themes include the Holocaust, partisan fighters during the war, Holocaust survivor behaviours, the burden on the next generation, silence by survivors leading to confusion and ignorance in the second generation about their parents' experiences, and religious and philosophical issues surrounding these events and experiences. As stated on the back cover, September 1939. Duvid sees his family carried off by the Nazis and can do nothing. His life takes many turns--he survives the death camps, becomes a partisan, and settles in Israel, and finally in Canada. Duvid's sons, born in Israel, raised in Montreal, grow up haunted by their father's memories. They overhear whispered secret stories from the war in disconnected bits and pieces. On his death, his sons follow the clues their father left--a packet of written fragments secreted away in an old suitcase for close to 40 years--and find the impossible."--

• | Author: Harry Rajchgot
• | Publisher: Harry Rajchgot
• | Publication Date: Mar 12, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 458 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0995043515
• | ISBN-13: 9780995043510