Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes

Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes

by TamarYellin (Author)

Synopsis

Award-winning author Tamar Yellin brings us deeply melancholy, darkly humorous linked stories that examine the heart of human longing and ask the question: Where do we belong? With its imagery from the legend of the exiled ten tribes of Israel, Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes follows the life-journey of a wandering narrator who encounters a series of displaced persons: the uncle whose endless travels seem romantic but are in fact a camouflage for a life of failure and malaise; the girl student who may literally be invisible; and, the young man who spends his night hours obsessively writing and rewriting the slim volume he can never finish. With each encounter the narrator inevitably moves on, dreaming of home, unable to resist the lure of the world's labyrinth.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: 1 Original
Publisher: Griffin,U.S.
Published: 02 Dec 2009

ISBN 10: 0312379137
ISBN 13: 9780312379131

Media Reviews
* Serenely crafted stories.... Each mournful, startling portrait proves that award-winning Yellin is a stylist to watch. - Publishers Weekly
Author Bio

Tamar Yellin received the Pusey and Ellerton Prize for Biblical Hebrew from Oxford University, and has worked as a teacher and lecturer in Judaism. Her first novel, The Genizah at the House of Shepher, was awarded the 2007 Sami Rohr Prize for Literature from the Jewish Book Council, the Ribalow Prize from Hadassah Magazine and was short-listed for the Wingate Prize from Jewish Quarterly. She lives in Yorkshire, England.