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The Tinker's Son

by Paul Horvitz
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781953220424
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Albion-Andalus Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Albion-Andalus Books
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  • Pages: 296
  • Original Price: USD 18.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 436 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Historical / General

The Tinker's Son illuminates the painful moral choices faced by a rabbinical student in 1870s Imperial Russia after he is drafted into the Tsar's army and unwittingly hurts the woman he loves.

This work of historical fiction, the second novel by the journalist Paul Horvitz, is a wartime love story. Yakov Leibovich, a brilliant but inexperienced young man, is constrained by the traditions of his faith. His isolated shtetl life in the Pale of Settlement, a vast ghetto that crimps the aspirations of Russia's Jews, is upended by a conscription notice. Yakov's father and rabbi craft an exemption to keep him from becoming cannon fodder, but the scheme forces Yakov to acquiesce in an unethical act. When he realizes he has deeply harmed people he cares about, he embarks on a quest for forgiveness that propels him into battle, espionage, personal tragedy, and, ultimately, redemption. The Tinker's Son follows Yakov's intellectual and emotional maturation during the Russo-Turkish War as he encounters some of the era's most prominent generals, rabbis, and oligarchs. It captures the nationalistic and religious ferment that shaped Russian history and the future of Russia's Jews as they haltingly emerged from isolation into the modern era, even if it meant pursuing a risky escape to the promise of a better life.

Horvitz, Paul: - Paul Horvitz is a former newspaper journalist and financial writer in the United States and Europe. He was a reporter and editor at The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, and Bloomberg News before joining a nonprofit investment advisory firm. Mr. Horvitz is retired and lives north of Boston. He is the author of Agent of Intrusion, a contemporary novel about state-sponsored hacking and industrial espionage. His other writings, including essays on politics and climate issues, can be found at paulhorvitz.com.

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