Ebook {Epub PDF} The Family Orchard by Nomi Eve

--The Boston Globe From the Trade Paperback edition. About the Author Nomi Eve is thirty-two years old. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Family Orchard is her first novel. Seller Inventory # ABE More information about this seller | Contact this seller/5(). At once epic and intimate, The Family Orchard is a rich historical tapestry of passion and tradition from a storyteller of beguiling power. From the Back Cover In the bestselling tradition of The Red Tent, The Family Orchard is a spellbinding novel of one unforgettable family, the orchard they've tended for generations, and a love story that transcends the ages.4/5(57). In language as uniquely vibrant as the characters who inhabit it, The Family Orchard captures the intoxications of love, tradition, and history, and the ineluctable forces that shape them. A deliciously engrossing novel, at once epic and intimate, from a storyteller of .

Nomi Eve's first novel is "a magical, multigenerational sage encompassing two hundred years in the life of an unforgettable family. " [from the jacket]. Also contains 31 linecuts nd a family tree.. . The first, ambitious novel by Nomi Eve reads smoothly and pleasurably. It is not easy to retell the story, because The Family Orchard is not written like a novel, but is more like a memoir, an. An interview with Nomi Eve. Nomi Eve discusses how in her father's meticulous research of their family tree (connected all the way back to the House of David) inspired her family stories, and why she prefers to portray the history through the eyes of fiction. Where did the idea come from to write The Family Orchard?

Their granddaughter, Avra, marries into a Russian immigrant family that has established a small. In language as uniquely vibrant as the characters who inhabit it, The Family Orchard captures the intoxications of love, tradition, and history, and the ineluctable forces that shape them. A deliciously engrossing novel, at once epic and intimate, from a storyteller of beguiling power and wisdom. My father writes. In the bestselling tradition of The Red Tent, The Family Orchard is a spellbinding novel of one unforgettable family, the orchard they've tended for generations, and a love story that transcends the ages. Nomi Eve's lavishly imagined account begins in Palestine in , with the tale of the irrepressible family matriach, Esther, who was lured by the smell of baking bread into an affair with the local baker.