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Odette
By: Youssef CoheneBook Publisher: AuthorSolutions
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The year 1952 begins badly in Cairo. A mob burns every building in the city-dooming the future of the degenerate king and every foreigner and Jew. Youssef Cohen's father sends Youssef, his mother Odette, and his sister to Europe, where he hopes they will be safe; he has no idea that just a few months later, his wife will be dead and Youssef and his sister will be without a mother. In this fictionalized memoir, loosely based on true events, Youssef Cohen shares a poignant story told through the eyes of a man who lost his mother as a child and, forty years later, is still haunted by the memories. He embarks on a quest to learn more about his mother; his search takes him from Manhattan to Venice to Sao Paolo and finally to Cairo. In a narrative stitched together with letters, photographs, and memories of the people he meets along the way, the man creates a fascinating tapestry of his forgotten past. But before the man reaches his mother's grave at a Jewish cemetery in Bassatine, he must understand his own identity in order to heal from the loss he suffered so many years ago.
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| Title of eBook: Odette | |
| Release Date: 11-17-2010 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse.com |
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| Parent title | Odette |
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| SKU | 9781450259712 |
| File size | 18637 |
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Odette
Chapter One
Eleventh Street, Manhattan
In June 1998 I sat at my desk, unable to concentrate on the lecture I was preparing on Machado de Assis's The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. My copy of the Memoirs is well thumbed, as I return often to my favorite passages, to the narrator's quirky puns, jokes, and diatribes, relishing them as one would the habitual gossip of a dear friend. But on that afternoon, Machado de Assis and his narrator had infected me with their melancholy. The office in which I had worked for so many years felt suddenly alien, as if it belonged to someone else, and the hundreds of books I had lovingly arranged side by side now seemed but a meaningless jumble of color and print. The disorientation I felt did not last long, but the lingering sense of futility soon made unbearable the deathly silence of my office. Hoping that a change of place would offer some relief, I picked up the New York Times and headed up Broadway toward my favorite coffee shop on Eleventh Street. At the corner of Broadway and Astor Place the sight of green mangos and yellow bananas confused me, for the smell that hung in the pasty heat wasn't of mango but rather of the sausages being fried in the metal stand next to the fruit vendor's. Not far ahead, the Gothic spire of Grace Church rose white in the sky, a giant arrow pointing to the mortals below the way out of their carnal cages.
On Eleventh Street, where my legs had taken me while my mind had drifted, I saw my father standing by the iron bars of the Spanish-Portuguese Cemetery. Impeccably suited in the gray Tasmanian wool he bought in London, a white handkerchief peeki
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