Barbara Rogan
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Cafe Nevo is a Tel Aviv gathering place for artists, politicians, lovers - Jews and Arabs, the old and the young, conservatives a
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nd radicals. It is presided over by Emmanuel Sternholz, the proprietor-waiter whose unblinking gaze takes in the tangled web of destinies and desires spun out around him. In this comic, tragic, and compelling mosaic of intertwined lives, Barbara Rogan has created a dazzling work of fiction - and a marvelously illuminating mirror of Israel today.
"An inspired, passionate work of fiction." (Kirkus Reviews)
"A special book...one you'll remember and want to pass on to a friend." (Erie Times News)
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Café Nevo is the gathering place for a large and diverse group of Tel Aviv residents--artists, writers, politicians, chess players, and casual and serious drinkers. They are mainly Jews, some are Arabs. Set in the present, this much acclaimed novel about the lives, loves, feuds, and entanglements of Café Nevo's customers selectively covers a considerable period of Israel's post-WWII history. Anna Fields is excellent with both masculine and feminine voices. Her rendition of Sternholtz, the ancient waiter and proprietor of Café Nevo, is brilliant. Sternholtz is a wonderfully conceived character, and Fields does everything possible in her reading to make him come to life. We come to know this irascible, no-nonsense old man who has seen everything, and experienced much that is terrible. He is an incurable insomniac who is tired of his own life. Nonetheless, he works to better things for the people who are important to him. He is a force for common sense in a world that is largely irrational, a force for good amidst much evil. R.E.K. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine--
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