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Winner of the
National Jewish Book Award (2003)
Winner of the
Reform
Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction
(2003)
Winner of the Edward
Lewis Wallant Award (2002)
Seamlessly weaving its deeper
preoccupations into a narrative thoroughly absorbing and satisfying, In the
Image follows a young New Jersey woman, Leora, through the death of a friend in
high school and on to college, career, and falling in love. Simultaneously, it
traces the story of Bill Landsmann, her lost friend’s grandfather, back
through several generations of experience in Amsterdam, Austria, and New York’s
Lower East Side. Each dramatic episode of their lives is also a foray into the
nature of good and evil; of the significance of tradition and the law; of the
presence or absence of God.
Not just a first novel but a
cultural event—a wedding of secular and religious forms of literature—In the
Image neither lives in the past nor seeks to escape it, but rather assimilates
it, in the best sense of the word, honoring what is lost and finding, among the
lost things, the treasures that can renew the present.
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