A coming-of-age novel set in New York and Michigan during the Vietnam War era, Winter Eyes shows us how the past controls and divides the immigrant Borowski family, and how their American-born son Stefan ends up separated from himself and from everyone around him. But when Stefan comes to learn the terrible secrets at the heart of his family, that knowledge transforms them all and points the way to a new future for him.
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"Raphael's book resembles a piano sonata, a piece he knows so well that his fingers breathed the music."
--Los Angeles Times
"One of the most affecting, absorbing, and quietly powerful American coming-of-age novels"
--Booklist
"Raphael is a writer of vision like Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin."
--Jewish Bulletin of San Francisco
"Raphael writes about the legacy of the Holocaust in a way few writers can. About remembering and trying not to remember, and about what people do to survive the darkness of their own past."
--Sacramento Bee
"Raphael handles grand themes: loneliness, separation, desire and the struggle with gay identity, daring his readers to contemplate wholeness."
--The Forward
--Los Angeles Times
"One of the most affecting, absorbing, and quietly powerful American coming-of-age novels"
--Booklist
"Raphael is a writer of vision like Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin."
--Jewish Bulletin of San Francisco
"Raphael writes about the legacy of the Holocaust in a way few writers can. About remembering and trying not to remember, and about what people do to survive the darkness of their own past."
--Sacramento Bee
"Raphael handles grand themes: loneliness, separation, desire and the struggle with gay identity, daring his readers to contemplate wholeness."
--The Forward
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By Gill
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As per usual for all of Lev's books, he grabs the reader from the first page in and never lets go until the last page. Then the regret arrives...if only I had of read it slower and savored it. Lev has a wonderful way with words, he paints us word pictures so we know just what he wants us to see and feel and experience.
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Lev Raphael has wanted to be an author since he was in second grade, and he's not only achieved his dream, he's published twenty-four books in genres from memoir to mystery to Jane Austen Mashup; had his books translated into nearly a dozen languages; appeared in two documentaries; won various prizes; done hundreds of invited talks and readings on three different continents; recently sold his literary papers (92 boxes!) to the Michigan State University Libraries (MSUL); been the subject of scholarly articles, papers and book chapters; and seen his work taught at colleges and universities around the country. Which means he's become homework. Who knew?
Born and raised in New York, he got over it and has spent half his life in Michigan. He's a pioneer in writing about children of Holocaust survivors, which he's been doing since 1978, longer than almost any other American author. He frequently tours with his books (check http://www.levraphael.com for his current schedule) and is currently touring with My Germany, a memoir/travelogue exploring the role Germany has played in his family, his life, and his career.
After he escaped academia to write full-time, he reviewed extensively for over a decade for the Detroit Free Press, Michigan Radio, The Washington Post, Jerusalem Report, The Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Forward, Boston Review, and Lambda Book Report. He now reviews for Bibliobuffet.com and WKAR 90.5 FM/East Lansing Public Radio, and when he's not busy, he sometimes imagines some graduate student years from now in the MSUL archives puzzling over his handwriting.
A seasoned reader of his own work, with a background in theater and teaching, he loves the performance aspect of touring, as well as meeting people he'd never meet back home. And the sightseeing. And the foreign foods. For photos from his previous German book tous, go to http://www.levraphael.com/europe_photos.html.
Born and raised in New York, he got over it and has spent half his life in Michigan. He's a pioneer in writing about children of Holocaust survivors, which he's been doing since 1978, longer than almost any other American author. He frequently tours with his books (check http://www.levraphael.com for his current schedule) and is currently touring with My Germany, a memoir/travelogue exploring the role Germany has played in his family, his life, and his career.
After he escaped academia to write full-time, he reviewed extensively for over a decade for the Detroit Free Press, Michigan Radio, The Washington Post, Jerusalem Report, The Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Forward, Boston Review, and Lambda Book Report. He now reviews for Bibliobuffet.com and WKAR 90.5 FM/East Lansing Public Radio, and when he's not busy, he sometimes imagines some graduate student years from now in the MSUL archives puzzling over his handwriting.
A seasoned reader of his own work, with a background in theater and teaching, he loves the performance aspect of touring, as well as meeting people he'd never meet back home. And the sightseeing. And the foreign foods. For photos from his previous German book tous, go to http://www.levraphael.com/europe_photos.html.
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