Karpstein Was Hiding
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There is poetry in Karpstein Was Hiding. The words wrap around every image and description like colorful pieces of silk. ... the life of Theodore Karpstein, not through a microscope, but through a kaleidoscope.... a commanding and enlightening work... We will definitely be on the lookout for Martin David's next work. Review by Sophie Cohen From Westside Life Magazine Karpstein Was Hiding is a heart wrenching novel that takes you into the hidden world of Karpstein. You see with amazing clarity the fears and guilt of a Holocaust survivor -- or even more devastating, the haunting memories of one who is not. Col. L. Michael Keller - Philanthropist ... carried me along in a spinning cloud of musical language and magical images. The book becomes a movie in your mind as descriptions flow onto the pages like living paintings.... . Tex Banner (on the Barnes & Noble.com site) ...I was struck by the evocative prose and how the story held my interest as it wove a tale of a person that many Jewish Americans would recognize. The book creates a world that is familiar, and yet foreign, as in a dream... that vague sense of being pursued that many Jews feel instinctively (and for good cause), plus supernatural elements that rise from the landscape .... Sheila Levenson on Amazon.com |
…many people…live to a certain extent in a kind of lonely exile out of cowardice, or despair, or disappointment ... a brilliant job of capturing that sense, driving it to an extreme, and making it vivid.... an extremely powerful book. ... David Palmer, former Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, General Books (Readers Digest Books) Martin David's relentless and bleak tale tears at the tissue separating fantasy from reality. It is a story to be eaten, with bitter herbs, and salt water. Karpstein Was Hiding is a beautiful river of language
that sometimes seems like a long poem. It has been created with a
craftsmanship that one seldom sees in modern writing. Once you have read
it you will give Karpstein a hiding place inside your own mind. Rabbi Menachem Cohen on Amazon.com
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