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Swine's Wedding
By the author of The Roaches Have No King.
224 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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Daniel Evan Weiss
13 books27 followersDaniel Evan Weiss is the author of four novels: The Roaches Have No King, Hell on Wheels, Honk if You Love Aphrodite, and The Swine’s Wedding. His most recent book is non-fiction, The Magic of Middle-aged Women: Romance, Sex, Deviance--Freedom.
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
March 23, 2012
Weiss takes a deceptively simple story, and through the use of multiple perspectives and an unconventional narrative structure, turns it into an apocalyptic, thoughtful, and wholly engaging epic that examines the cultural and historical differences that divide us. I cannot recommend this one enough.
July 14, 2013
This book revolves around the wedding preparations between a young Jewish man and a young lady of the Episcopal faith.
Is this going to be a Jewish or Christian wedding or a combination of both? Every Jewish mother-in law wants Jewish grandchildren; every Christian mother-in law wants Christian grandchildren. Who is going to win? The author throws in the Spanish and Portugal Inquisition that was one of the darkest epochs of Jewish people; good research Daniel Evan Weiss!
This is a comedy and tragedy in one. This book reflects today’s society – Jewish or Christian? Nothing has changed – the struggle is still the same. I am one of them, the convert who survived the dark ages of the Inquisition; one from a handful of people who have endured for 500 years. I enjoyed reading, I cried, I was happy, I was angry, I was mystified.
If you are looking for a great piece of history, love, hate, cruelty, sex, intrigues, with a hint of detective work, this is it.
Again, Daniel Evan Weiss at his best: Witty and disturbing; funny and sad, happy and horrifying.
I am not any character in his book, but I might have been. Not knowing what the book was about, I just picked it up because he is my favourite contemporary author. I am a Sephardic Jew with the same “medieval” past. I cried out of joy of survival, horror of the Jewish past, and much, much more.
Is this going to be a Jewish or Christian wedding or a combination of both? Every Jewish mother-in law wants Jewish grandchildren; every Christian mother-in law wants Christian grandchildren. Who is going to win? The author throws in the Spanish and Portugal Inquisition that was one of the darkest epochs of Jewish people; good research Daniel Evan Weiss!
This is a comedy and tragedy in one. This book reflects today’s society – Jewish or Christian? Nothing has changed – the struggle is still the same. I am one of them, the convert who survived the dark ages of the Inquisition; one from a handful of people who have endured for 500 years. I enjoyed reading, I cried, I was happy, I was angry, I was mystified.
If you are looking for a great piece of history, love, hate, cruelty, sex, intrigues, with a hint of detective work, this is it.
Again, Daniel Evan Weiss at his best: Witty and disturbing; funny and sad, happy and horrifying.
I am not any character in his book, but I might have been. Not knowing what the book was about, I just picked it up because he is my favourite contemporary author. I am a Sephardic Jew with the same “medieval” past. I cried out of joy of survival, horror of the Jewish past, and much, much more.
January 18, 2008
If Weiss can be said to have a masterpiece, it is this book. An epistolary novel about the wedding of a Catholic and a Jew, this book was especially interesting to read right before my friend Josh's wedding. The stories of numerous disasters while trying to prepare made me laugh quite a bit. Josh read the book after me, and said it actually made him cervous about the impending wedding.
June 14, 2012
An amazing story about the conflicts that can arise when going through an interfaith marriage. Daniel Evan Weiss is one of my all time favorite authors. The NY times called him "the evil kanievel of novelist" his stories are gritty to the point of being filthy but they also feature more heart and honesty than almost any of his more famous contemporaries.
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August 26, 2016
My first introduction to the fascinating topic of conversos (Jews in Spain and Portugal who changed their religion in order to preserve their property and lives during the inquisition). An seemingly unavoidable tragedy engulfs two likeable people, and keeps you thinking long after you've finished the book.
April 10, 2010
An interesting tale of pre-wedding jitters, to put it mildly :)
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