Jeffrey Hantover
Forfatter af The Jewel Trader of Pegu: A Novel
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- 20th Century
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Bopæl
- Hong Kong
New York, New York, USA - Uddannelse
- Harvard University (John F. Kennedy School of Government)
University of Chicago (MA, PhD) - Agent
- Marly Rusoff Literary Agency
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A Jewish widower named Abraham goes to Pegu to make some money trading jewels. He would find adventure, love, and answers to lifelong questions he didn't know he had. You hear Abraham's words through letters he writes to a relative. Quite touching and feeling somewhat ethereal.
At the same time, a young native girl is signed up to get married and the day of her wedding finds out her husband dies. She falls for the pale-skinned, hairy Abraham.
The characters really do grow and learn in the book. And in a story that became more romance than I would prefer, these moments of clarity shined through. The ending kind of bothered me but otherwise an enchanting story that one can really enjoy.
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