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...Darjeeling and little sandwiches. Businessmen and -women talk deals at Boston's Ritz-Carlton, which offers a variety of teas, steeped in floral china pots. New York City's WaldorfAstoria reinstated tea service just over one year ago. Says Food and Beverage Director Thomas Monetti: "People like the relaxing harp music and the elegance of the brass tea trolleys. You often see papers and memos out on the tables." "It's a very graceful way to do business," says John Strauss, manager of San Francisco's elegant Four Seasons Clift Hotel. "Some of them add a glass of wine...
...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...
Ilana's earliest memories are of Party meetings in their house and the countless times the family has to move because landlords will tolerate neither their politics nor their gatherings. No matter where they live, though, the Chandals hang a small wooden harp on the entrance door that emits a sound with every visitor. It seems that all that passes through the door the politics the passions, play on the impressionable Ilana, too. Potok has written a Bildangstoman, a portrait of the artist as a young girl whose watchful eyes and curious mind set upon the whirlwind times and enigmatic...
...spiritual odyssey which lies at the heart of Davita's Harp begins one summer on Long Island. In order to escape the heat of the inner city, Ilana's parents rent a cottage on the beach next door to Anne's cousins, a recently widowed Orthodox Jew named Ezra Dinn and his young son, David. The sounds that come from the Dinn's house during the course of the summer, the Kaddish or prayer for the dead, the morning prayers and Sabbath hymns, catch Ilana's ear while she is sitting on the beach building sand castles or reading...
...represents a twist of the theme of generational conflict that is at the crux of much of Potok's work. In both The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lee youngsters from religious backgrounds partially break away from their families and communities in pursuit of secular goals. In Davita Harp however, the pattern reversed here religion is the forbidden trust...