Cafe Nevo is a Tel Aviv gathering place for artists, politicians, lovers - Jews and Arabs, the old and the young, conservatives and radicals. It is presided over by Emmanuel Sternholz, the proprietor-waiter whose unblinking gaze takes in the tangled web of destinies and desires spun out around him. In this comic, tragic, and compelling mosaic of intertwined lives, Barbara Rogan has created a dazzling work of fiction - and a marvelously illuminating mirror of Israel today.
"An inspired, passionate work of fiction." (Kirkus Reviews)
"A special book...one you'll remember and want to pass on to a friend." (Erie Times News)
"Lively dialogue and appealing characters distinguish the new novel by the author of Changing States ," applauded PW , of this story of the lives and loves of the people who frequent Tel Aviv's Cafe Nevo. "Plots abound," in this "affecting book." Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Apart from short stints as a horse wrangler and park ranger, Barbara Rogan has spent her entire career in the publishing industry: as an editor, a literary agent, a writer and a teacher. After graduating with a degree in liberal arts from St. John's College, she went to work as a copy editor with a major New York publishing house. Within a year, she fulfilled a long-held intention by moving to Israel, where she became the English-language editor of a Tel Aviv publishing house. Shortly thereafter, she launched the Barbara Rogan Literary Agency to represent American and European publishers and agents for the sale of Hebrew rights. Among the thousands of writers she represented were Nadine Gordimer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Abba Eban, Irwin Shaw, John LeCarre, and her childhood favorite, Madeleine L'Engle. At the age of 26, she was appointed to the board of directors of the Jerusalem Book Fair, the youngest director ever to serve on the board. During this period her first novel, CHANGING STATES, was published simultaneously in England, the U.S., and Israel.
For several years Barbara continued to write and run the agency, but eventually felt compelled to choose between her two occupations. She loved the agency she'd founded and the exciting life that went with it, but writing was her passion. Making a radical break, she sold the agency and returned to New York. Since then she has produced seven more novels, including Hindsight, Suspicion, and Rowing in Eden. Her publishers include Simon & Schuster, Morrow, and Doubleday, and her fiction has been translated widely and graciously reviewed. About SUSPICION, The Washington Post wrote, "If you can put this book down before you've finished it, it's possible that your heart may have stopped beating." "What Bonfire of the Vanities tried to be," Library Journal wrote of SAVING GRACE; and CAFÉ NEVO was called "unforgettable" by the San Francisco Chronicle and "an inspired, passionate work of fiction, a near-magical novel" by Kirkus Review. Barbara also co-authored two non-fiction books, published by Crown and Harcourt Brace, and contributed essays to several published anthologies. To read more about Barbara's work, visit her website: www.barbararogan.com; and don't forget to sample the coffee in the Writers' Lounge.
Barbara taught fiction writing at Hofstra University and SUNY Farmingdale for several years before trading her brick-and-mortar classroom for a virtual one. Her online courses and editing services are described on her teaching website, www.nextlevelworkshop.com. As a professional whose experience spans all aspects of publishing, Barbara is a frequent presenter at writers' conferences, seminars, and retreats. She is currently working on a new novel and a non-fiction book on revising one's own fiction.
