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Until the moment of revelation, in fact, Kamensky remains a pale figure, repeatedly upstaged by other characters and by Dame Rebecca herself, whose keen eye for detail alights frequently on the tableaux of fin-de-siecle Europe and the Byzantine complexities of expatriate Russian life...
Long into the night the combines clattered and roared, their headlights probing like huge pale fingers into the golden sea of Saskatchewan's wheatfields. As the harvest gathered momentum across the 1,000-mile sweep of the Canadian prairies last week, the empty, echoing granaries filled with the largest crop in the nation's history-a crop that is already sold out, as is all the grain the prairies can grow for the rest of the decade. With the rumble of the harvest came a cacophony of Canadian sounds that, taken together, sounded unmistakably like boom...
Rabbi Small is a pale, unprepossessing, erudite and somewhat irascible young man who solves mysteries by using Talmudic reasoning instead of chasing off after clues. In this book, the rabbi's troubles begin when influential members of his congregation become annoyed because he has buried an apparent suicide in the temple cemetery...
...just a handyman, a fixer, carefully pared and peeled down from every commitment but to his own identity. His wife has left him for a goy. He leaves his village ("an island surrounded by Russia") for a new life beyond the Pale-the ghetto areas that the Czar designated for the Jews. He also leaves behind him the Law, takes off in a ramshackle, horse-drawn contraption for the future. He has shed everything but Spinoza, whom he had read by night in his ratty hut, and from whom he gleaned the notion that man is without history, God merely...
Lise was a pale, blue-eyed wisp who at 15 sheepherded seven starving, barefooted children out of the ruins of Warsaw's ghetto, across Europe, to safety in a French Jewish orphanage. She was also one among thousands of Jewish children who survived the Nazis only to find themselves displaced and placeless in the wreckage of postwar Europe. They seemed anything but superfluous to British Novelist Charity Blackstock (Mr. Christopoulos, Monkey on a Chain). Working through a British Jewish relief agency, Mrs. Blackstock brought about 500 Jewish adolescents to England, installed them for brief holidays in Jewish homes...