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Sand Devil
Three novellas set in the Negev Desert. Startling and original, Bornstein possesses a powerful, sometimes magical, voice. The heat of the Desert is captured in this collection of three novellas. An escaped murderer holds a young woman hostage in HOUSE OF BONDAGE. In THE MAESTRO OF YERUCHAM, a Russian violinist who has survived the Nazis and the Soviet regimes finds a young girl he believes to be the heir to his talents. And in SAND DEVIL, the adolescent son of a fundamentalist family discovers the terrifying secrets of the desert
280 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2001
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July 28, 2011
This is a book written by Michael B Oren who has written two important books on Middle Eastern History. The book Sand Devil is composed of three stories that occur out in the Negev. The first story revolves around a woman of Moroccan ancestry who lives in Beersheba alone. She is unmarried and is getting to that age where she will remain a spinster all of her life. Her life takes a dramatic change when a murderer named Marco escapes from a nearby prison. He is injured and she takes care of him. During the first few days she is held captive by him she begin to fall in love with Marco and has her first experience with this man. On one of her shopping trips she buys cigarettes and other things that she normally does not buy. Ramai Cohen a police officer takes notice. When they plan there get away to France Rami Cohen shakes things up.
The second story takes places in Yerucham. An aging conductor from Siberia reflects on his past’s life from a time when he had a family and fame and how the coming off the Nazis and Russians changed all of that. After 40 years in Siberia he makes Aliyah to Israel. He is shunted off to a Negev outpost where in he trains a young prodigy who is you daughter of Toledano the town big shot. She has a chance at an audition in Jerusalem but her father wont let here take it. The aging conductor decides to take her anyway and they go on a journey through the Negev. I’ll leave the ending a surprise.
The third story revolves around a fundamentalist Christian family that chooses to dwell in the Negev after thee father kills a burglar who enter their house. They live in a tent and watch after sheep. Young Robert befriends and old Bedouin named Iblis who tell him all about the area. One favorite story is the story of the giants and the Lions. All that remains is the spirit of the lion. The lion spirit possesses young Robert turning him into a savage. In the end the family flees save for father and son. All that is left is Revital an anthropologist and Robert who will spend their days out there living of the land.
The second story takes places in Yerucham. An aging conductor from Siberia reflects on his past’s life from a time when he had a family and fame and how the coming off the Nazis and Russians changed all of that. After 40 years in Siberia he makes Aliyah to Israel. He is shunted off to a Negev outpost where in he trains a young prodigy who is you daughter of Toledano the town big shot. She has a chance at an audition in Jerusalem but her father wont let here take it. The aging conductor decides to take her anyway and they go on a journey through the Negev. I’ll leave the ending a surprise.
The third story revolves around a fundamentalist Christian family that chooses to dwell in the Negev after thee father kills a burglar who enter their house. They live in a tent and watch after sheep. Young Robert befriends and old Bedouin named Iblis who tell him all about the area. One favorite story is the story of the giants and the Lions. All that remains is the spirit of the lion. The lion spirit possesses young Robert turning him into a savage. In the end the family flees save for father and son. All that is left is Revital an anthropologist and Robert who will spend their days out there living of the land.
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