The son of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist recounts his twenty years of separation from his father, their difficult reunion in 1955, and the thirty-five-year relationship that followed, during which both men tried to bridge their differences.
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a good treatment of singer:
Of course, this memoir can be read as one son's quest for his father after a twenty year seperation. But it is also a book about the vicissitudes of European Jews before and after World War II. For those souls, three fates awaited them: death by the evil force of Nazism, exile in America or some other safe haven, or settlement in Palestine and later the State of Israel. Isaac Singer wound up in American, and his son in Israel. In many ways, they became the separate embodiments of the solution to the Jewish... more info
A decent son and a not-so- decent great- writer -father:
I read this book in the language it was originally written, Hebrew. I found it to be a convincing and moving account of a relationship between a decent son and a not- so- decent great- writer father. Zamir's journey to his father, his efforts at befriending him have some success. But IB Singer who is without question one of Literature's greatest writer of stories was not very generous or welcoming. In time their relationship improves and the son translates the father's work into Hebrew. The sense is that... more info
his falther/my father:
to learn about our father, i had to read his sons book. my father has brought me on a journey into vast spaces that needed him. he has made me understand when i had no one to understand, he came to me in a vision..in a book..in many books, yet he is my father and your his son. thank you for the only book that knows him, we know his thoughts..what is it that i cannot comprehend, but thank you for sharing.all my love mina..daughter of mahnaa
