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My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search For His Jewish Past In Kurdish Iraq (2008)

by Ariel Sabar(Favorite Author)

4.12 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1565124901 (ISBN13: 9781565124905)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Algonquin Books

review 1: Baştan uyarayım. Türkçe çevirisi çok kötü. Hikaye ise çok enteresan. Kürdistan'da Yahudilerin yaşadığını bilmiyordum. İsa'nın dili olarak bilinen ve Akad-Asur zamanında Ortadoğu'nın en yaygın dili olan Aramice'yi konuştuklarını ise hiç bilmiyordum. Kitap bir Kürdistan Yahudisi olan Yona'nın İsrail ve ABD macerasını anlatıyor. Çocukluğunun cenneti Zaho'yu sonsuza dek kaybeden Yona'nın öyküsü aslında şu an savaş batağındaki Ortadoğu'nun öyküsü. Çeviri de iyi olsaydı tadından yenmezdi. Şu an için sadece Ortadoğu ve din-dil tarih meraklılarına öneririm.
review 2: I have just finished reading this highly personal yet universal book. I would give it 5 stars but I think the first third of the book suffered from th... moree author's attempt to give a lot of historical information, that could have been better organized. The story kept moving around the centuries, back and forth and I found that very confusing. I felt the story really came together when the narrative developed a more linear story-telling of how young Yona struggled to achieve an education and help support his family. The story can be seen as a highly personal account of one family, the connection/disconnection between fathers and sons The book aslo is a commentary on the effect of modernity on family life and on a community that disappears into a greater whole. It is also the story of immigrants coming to a new land and having to fit in, leaving behind a way of life and either adapting or not adapting, of fighting to keep your identiy or surrendering the past to be accepted to the present, or of finding a way to make a synthesis between the past and the present. It also raises the question of how and what do we pass something of value on to the future.I felt the part of the book that dealt with the author's Don Quixote-like quest to find a long ago lost relative was very telling about the differences between the American culture of "I want this right now and no one is going to tell me what to do!" and the old world culture that was more understanding that there are limits to what one can do and expect from this world.Highly recommended. less

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