Fever
10 hrs. 13 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Toby Lloyd
Author
Toby Lloyd
Narrator
Georgy Arsenyev
Narrator
Georgy Arsenyev
Description
An impressive novel nominated for the National Jewish Book Award.
This isn’t just a novel about survival and memory, but a deep look at how the pain of the past echoes in every new generation.
Toby Lloyd’s novel “Ember” is an engaging, expertly written story about how family traumas—especially those that haven’t been worked through—tend to reproduce themselves in future generations, forming in the souls of descendants an existential void through which everything seeps. A few years ago, we might have said that a story about a Jew who survived the Holocaust, and his children and grandchildren, is more historically instructive. But after October 7, 2023—and after the wave of antisemitism that has surged around the world, including allegedly progressive university campuses in America and Europe—it becomes obvious: this novel isn’t only about what happened. It’s about what’s happening now.
This isn’t just a novel about survival and memory, but a deep look at how the pain of the past echoes in every new generation.
Toby Lloyd’s novel “Ember” is an engaging, expertly written story about how family traumas—especially those that haven’t been worked through—tend to reproduce themselves in future generations, forming in the souls of descendants an existential void through which everything seeps. A few years ago, we might have said that a story about a Jew who survived the Holocaust, and his children and grandchildren, is more historically instructive. But after October 7, 2023—and after the wave of antisemitism that has surged around the world, including allegedly progressive university campuses in America and Europe—it becomes obvious: this novel isn’t only about what happened. It’s about what’s happening now.
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