The Binding Brenda Barrie Books
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When Dave Razkowski falls from the rock-face he’s climbing, he’s forced to deal with not only his serious physical injuries, but with the psychological injuries and powerful impact the Holocaust has had on survivors' children. Just as young Isaac of the Bible is unwittingly bound as an intended sacrifice to his father Abraham's past experiences and his spiritual beliefs, so are Dave, Wolff Blumen and Al Logan unwittingly and unwillingly bound to each other, because of their parents' experiences in the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Struggle as they might against these invisible tethers, the three men cannot escape the dreadful historical events that still haunt and terrorize their parents. Dave’s fall from the rock-face plunges him unwillingly into the lives of Wolff— a former actor who has become an Orthodox Jew — and Al— an investigative reporter who, like Dave, goes to desperate measures to keep his own Jewish heritage a secret. When the lives of these three men unexpectedly intersect, they are forced to deal with buried pain, family secrets, lies, betrayal, and sacrifice. Can these men heal the wounds that the Holocaust inflicted upon them because they are survivors' children? Can they stop hiding from their own heritage, unusual childhoods, and their parents' horrific past? Can these three men believe — and trust — in a God that seems to have abandoned their parents during the Holocaust? Highly gripping, faced-paced, and intense, Barrie's The Binding weaves the lives of these three men together like an exquisite tapestry, its invisible yet unbreakable threads like cords that bind Holocaust survivors to each other and to their children; cords that bind survivors' children to the offspring of other survivors, and, ultimately, to us. Their history becomes ours as Barrie's compelling story and fine writing lead to a surprising climax that will keep readers bound to the characters long after they've finished the book.
The Binding Brenda Barrie Books
This book was a beautiful read. It was hard to put down and I could not wait to get back to it to read more about the characters. I'm not Jewish and you definitely do NOT need to be to understand the story. The story comes alive and you feel for each character. I can't wait to read her next book The Rabbi's Husband who was introduced in this book. It's a great read and you won't be disappointed.Product details
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The Binding Brenda Barrie Books Reviews
I really was able to connect with the lives of the three couples. The action starts on the first page and pulls you into the story. The theme of how past events even before the birth of the main charactors comes to influence even dominate their lives is very powerfull.
I couldn't put The Binding down. I thought I'd take a look at the beginning of the book to get a feel for it and stick it in the pile for later. Instead, the story hooked me, and I finished it in a few sittings.
These characters are believable, and the reader cares what happens to them. The twists and turns the story took surprise and delight. Ms. Barrie allowed the characters to guide us on their journey without dictating authorial constraints.
But this isn't simply an enjoyable read. The reader learns about the psyche of children of Holocaust survivors, and how the commonality of their parents nightmare leads to different ways of coping with a generation's loss.
Fabulous characters, plot complications, great emotion, unrelenting conflict and wonderful language.
All in all, such an enjoyable read.
Brenda Barrie's first novel, The Binding, is a fictional exploration of the ongoing effects of a cataclysmic tragedy in the lives of three families as by chance the sons of three Holocaust survivors meet in South Dakota as the result of a rock-climbing accident one of the characters experiences. Dave Razkowski has gone on his annual solo climbing excursion that he undertakes every year in an attempt to match his survivor father's heroism in enduring life in the Nazi death machine, when he slips and falls hundreds of feet. He is spotted from the air by Wolff Blumen, another son of Holocaust survivors, who is flying a small airplane and notices Dave's broken body lying on the ground. Dave is rescued and taken to the Sioux Falls hospital where Wolff, an aspiring Orthodox rabbi, is the Chaplain. Another child of Holocaust survivors, Al Logan, a television newsman for the local station, gets involved as he sees a potential story that can make his professional career.
Thus, the secrets each man harbors, a secrecy rooted in an instinct to survive, begin to unravel. As the story develops, the strategies by which each man - especially Dave - attempt to shield their identities and thereby increase their chances of survival are revealed and explored. While he seems more or less to have come to terms with his own past, Woolf Blumen, the Orthodox Jew, nevertheless fantasizes rescuing Jews by bombing concentration camp rail-lines, and as a child his parents, the survivors, tried to protect him by making him a child actor, somebody with a name not unrecognizably Jewish who is always on the move. In the course of pursuing his story on the rescue of Dave Razkowski, Al Logan (born Alton Lowenthal), driven by professional ambitions on the one hand and his own past on the other, comes to the conclusion that Dave is a Neo-Nazi and tries to root him out, only to discover Dave's real secret. In doing so, Al realizes certain awful truths about his parents and how they were able to escape death in Hungary.
The Binding is full of psychological insights, not the least compelling of which is the way victim and perpetrator can become confused. Al Logan is not the only one who sees Dave as a potential Neo-Nazi; Robin McDonald, Dave's common-law wife, a gentile, uncovers her husband's secret Holocaust archives and is prepared to think the worst of him until her neighbor, Tovah Feldner, also a rabbi (and protagonist of the author's next novel, The Rabbi's Husband), convinces her otherwise.
This is a novel driven by both plot and character. Any intelligent reader will be charmed after the first two chapters and compelled to read to the end. Readers with a particular interest in the Holocaust will not want to miss this one.
I bought this book and her other two because the author introduced it to a gathering of library groupies at a gathering of local authors. Barrie's presentation so enticed me that sat down at Starbucks for an hour. The rest of the weekend was spent with Robin and Dave, Rabbi Blumen's family, All Logan and the rest of the characters. The cast is richly delineated and the story deeply satisfying. PTSD passed down from one generation to the next. The indelible stain of the Holocaust born by the children and how each step of characters copes with the consequences. I am now going to pick up the next boot in the trilogy.
I did not buy this so i can not review it. Where does it show thaat I paid for this as I did no such thing
This story gave a new way at looking at the training and study for someone who wants to become a rabbi..
This book was a beautiful read. It was hard to put down and I could not wait to get back to it to read more about the characters. I'm not Jewish and you definitely do NOT need to be to understand the story. The story comes alive and you feel for each character. I can't wait to read her next book The Rabbi's Husband who was introduced in this book. It's a great read and you won't be disappointed.
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