GYPSY TEARS

by Cora Schwartz

Overview

An important first novel by Cora Schwartz, based on the true story of her life living with a holocaust survivor. In a magical and haunting style, Ms. Schwartz weaves an intense love story that answers the question asked so many times since her husband’s death: “What was it really like living with a holocaust survivor?” As Ms. Schwartz carries us along in a grand sweep through Yugoslavia, Russia and Romania in the 1960s, the depth of her relationship with Rudy becomes a tragic work of art as she allows us a peek into the soul of a holocaust victim in an artful and deeply moving way.
Rhoda Sirlin, Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY, calls it a "haunting and ultimately heartbreaking love story which reveals the continuing lethal effects of the Holocaust on its survivors and those who love them. Readers will be swept off their feet by Rudy’s fatal charm and will be left feeling pity and fear at the end of this tragic and beautiful novel. A must-read for anyone interested in the destructive force of survivor guilt and the mysterious healing powers of the human heart."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012080387
Publisher:	Voices From My Retreat
Publication date:	05/05/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

CORA SCHWARTZ is a photo journalist and behavioral psychologist who lives and writes in South Fallsburg, New York. Her essays and short stories have been published in journals and periodicals. Her book, The Forgotten Few, was written and photographed to fulfill a promise she made to her husband, Rudy, to bring humanitarian aid to the remaining survivors in Mogelov. The Forgotten Few has been described as a small book with a huge impact. With only a few pages of text, the book presents photographs of holocaust survivors. They are images that will haunt the reader forever. The Forgotten Few is currently used in classrooms around the world.

Editorial Reviews

I agreed to read “Gypsy Tears” with trepidation. I was steeped in the Holocaust as a child (my mother narrowly escaped from Austria), and return to its terrible events reluctantly. Also, romance novels are not a genre I’m usually attracted to. Beautiful heroine meets eligible rich handsome man, fights off competition from evil beautiful anti-heroine and lives happily ever after does not speak to me when I search the shelves in a bookstore.This is not that kind of book.

Judy Tierney