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Sarah & Abraham

By (author): Sarah Engelhard

Sarah & Abraham: The Search for Miracles and the Stuttering Poet is a stranger than fiction account of a woman’s reach for miracles and her conflicted love for Montreal poet, Avi Boxer. It is a gripping tale of experiences that includes magic, sometimes black, by way of the captivating and devilish poet who played magician. The sacred and profane blurred in boundary, as did the very definition of morality, blessing and curse. Sarah’s emotional and spiritual journey, beginning with her escape from Nazi France, is animated with plot twists of biblical proportion, peppered with equal parts wit and profundity.

AUTHOR

Sarah Engelhard

Born in 1932, in Saarbrucken, France, Sarah Engelhard came to Canada on the first WW2 refugee ship, the Serpa Pinto, in 1944. She has been a television host, radio personality, teacher, singer/songwriter. She speaks regularly for the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre. Sarah is the mother of four. She lives in Montreal. Sarah & Abraham: The Search for Miracles and the Stuttering Poet is her first published book.


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Sarah & Abraham: The Search for Miracles and The Stuttering Poet is a reminder of the Holocaust’s psychological toll on multiple generations. Not all who survived and immigrated here lived serenely ever after.


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Sarah & Abraham: The Search for Miracles and the Stuttering Poet is a stranger than fiction account of a woman’s reach for miracles and her conflicted love for Montreal poet, Avi Boxer. It is a gripping tale of experiences that includes magic, sometimes black, by way of the captivating and devilish poet who played magician. The sacred and profane blurred in boundary, as did the very definition of morality, blessing and curse. Sarah’s emotional and spiritual journey, beginning with her escape from Nazi France, is animated with plot twists of biblical proportion, peppered with equal parts wit and profundity.

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Details

Dimensions:

350 Pages
9in * 6in * 1in
400gr

Published:

August 01, 2016

City of Publication:

Hamilton

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Guernica Editions

ISBN:

9781771831260

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Language:

eng

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