Fresh Tradition
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Fresh Tradition
9.99 €
In the center of the novel “Fresh Tradition” is the fate of the Jewish family in Russia from the beginning of the twentieth century to 1953. The hero of the novel Konstantin Levin, named after the Tolstoy hero, was born in a family of romantic revolutionaries. His mother, not at all like the tired mothers of classmates, was not his teacher, not a supervisor, but a friend. Kostya believed in the same ideals as his parents. The stones on the Champ de Mars with their solemn words were sacred to him.
He was lucky with his mom. Bad luck with time. Born in Petrograd during the February Revolution, he fully experienced what it meant to be a victim of history.
Thirty, when he was asked to disown his repressed father.
The Great Patriotic War.
Siege of Leningrad.
The Holocaust.
Loss of loved ones.
The anti-Semitic campaign of the late forties and early fifties, when he became an outcast and took away his best friend, his favorite job. Himself. Because to go through all the suffering that befell him is beyond human ability.
This book begins as a classic novel of parenting and growing up and ends as a tragedy – a tragedy of hopelessness and despair. But even in despair there is hope. The son of Konstantin Levin grows up, which means that there is someone to tell subsequent generations what happened to their fathers and grandfathers. So they can believe it.
He was lucky with his mom. Bad luck with time. Born in Petrograd during the February Revolution, he fully experienced what it meant to be a victim of history.
Thirty, when he was asked to disown his repressed father.
The Great Patriotic War.
Siege of Leningrad.
The Holocaust.
Loss of loved ones.
The anti-Semitic campaign of the late forties and early fifties, when he became an outcast and took away his best friend, his favorite job. Himself. Because to go through all the suffering that befell him is beyond human ability.
This book begins as a classic novel of parenting and growing up and ends as a tragedy – a tragedy of hopelessness and despair. But even in despair there is hope. The son of Konstantin Levin grows up, which means that there is someone to tell subsequent generations what happened to their fathers and grandfathers. So they can believe it.
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