Whether it is a sophisticated European filmmaker, an ambitious young black Haitian woman, a promising politician obsessed with women’s feet, or a fish out of water rabbi in search of a kosher chicken in Cura ao, each of Kurlansky’s characters engages us with impulses and interactions that are by turns comic, insightful, and poignant. As celebrated a nonfiction writer as he is, Mark Kurlansky was born to write fiction as well: he has an ability to unmask our foibles and write about love with wit and outright humor. The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories The White Man in the Tree is a comedy of cultural misunderstandings set in the Caribbean, New York, and Paris, a novella and eight stories about people who, because of their differences between men and women, blacks and whites, Caribbeans and visitors, Jews and Christians, rich and poor misjudge each other. The award winning author of the bestsellers Cod and The Basque History of the World makes his eagerly anticipated fiction debut with this funny and moving romp through the world’s melting pot. The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories It s about struggling to hold on to life in a rapidly changing world, about food and sex, and about how our lives are shaped by love and guilt. With its cast of unforgettable characters, Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue is a comedy of cultures, of the old and the new, of Latinos, Jews, Sicilians, and Germans. Meanwhile, a homicidal drug addict is terrorizing the neighborhood. His father, Harry, is plotting with the 1960s boogaloo star Chow Mein Vega for the comeback of this dance craze. Between paralyzing bouts of claustrophobia, Nathan wonders whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry maker whose parents may or may not have been Na*zis. It’s the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels beyond his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighborhood. Something had been written by the gods, and Nathan Seltzer knew this was one Friday that he would regret… Nathan woke up on a Friday morning with the unshakable sense that during this day he would commit a catastrophic error in judgment. In his eagerly awaited debut novel, critically acclaimed author Mark Kurlansky entertains readers with a brilliant story bursting with the vivid events and culinary delights even recipes that made bestsellers out of his nonfiction works Cod, Salt, and 1968.
0 kommentar(er)
