Word: chandals
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...harp referred to in the title belongs to Ilana Davita Chandal, the precocious daughter of parents active in communist causes in New York City back in the days when political idealism consoled the victims of economic depression. Ilana'a immigrant mother, Anne, descends from orthodox eastern European Jews. Her fervent embrace of Marxism stems from a bitter disillusionment with religion--forever associated with a cold father more interested in following holy men than his family--and from her husband, Michael. The scion of a wealthy New England family, Michael Chandal abandoned riches for rags when, as a youth, he witnessed...
...begins to unsettle Ilana. Armidst all the resolutions of long burning conflicts that accompany the end of the novel are early warnings of Ilana's own intellectual rebellion that may be the foundation of succeeding books. It certainly would be a shame if the spiritual struggle's of Ilana Chandal Dinn ended...
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