Here you sit at dinner with charming people in a dining room like any other. Yet you know that your hostess has lost a son, that her sister lost children in the 1973 war...in the domestic ceremony of passed dishes and filled glasses the thoughts ofa destructive enemy are hard to grasp. What you do know is that there is one fact of Jewish life left unchanged by the creation of a Jewish State: 'You cannot take your right to love for granted...'
ISBN: | 9780141180755 |
Publication date: | 1st May 1998 |
Author: | Saul Bellow |
Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 182 pages |
Series: | Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics |
Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Modern and Contemporary Fiction |