Tag: English

Berlin Revisited

An absorbing new insight into a little-known aspect of the second world war.  Paul Levitt takes us deep into pre and post-war Berlin in a fast-moving, brilliantly observed, enthralling and engaging story of a Jewish son forced to confront his mother’s way of surviving as Nazi power increased. We are caught up in his growing… Continue reading Berlin Revisited

Rowing to Ithaca

This is a novel about love, and in the dying words of the main characters, “what might have been.” But what might have been becomes a labyrinth where loving and being loved by more than one person forces choices and loss. Although the story is told by different characters, all are present as very believable… Continue reading Rowing to Ithaca

A Love Beyond Grievance

Beginning with an unwanted pregnancy and the red scare of the 1950s, Paul Levitt’s tale of the ups-and-downs—political, professional, sexual, connubial—of an academic life is full of lively incident, telling observation, practical advice, and charm. Plus, there is the protagonist’s indomitable Jewish mother to put everything in perspective! The news of a new novel by… Continue reading A Love Beyond Grievance

Yana

It is Yana Primuz herself, known to be “so good with words,” who tells us of her forced removal as a teenager during WWII from Belgrade in Yugoslavia to a labor camp, Zella-Mehlis (historical, not a fiction), just south of Belsen in Germany. For years, she suffers from rape, from cold and hunger, is forced… Continue reading Yana