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Zublinka Among Women

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"Zublinka Among Women" is a masterpiece! I love it. It was a tremendous read--I didn't want to put it down, but then I wanted to savor it, discuss it, and make it last as long as possible! Needless to say, I was so sorry when I read the last page. It's the
best book I've read in a long, long time. I know I'll be re-reading it in the future.

Congratulations to Robert Wexelblatt on such a great accomplishment.

Be sure to read this book and recommend it to all of your friends and colleagues.

Zublinka Among Women is a delightful novel that is witty, fun, thought-provoking, moving, compelling and insightful. Wexelblatt writes with a light touch, remarkable intelligence and feeling, and an exciting freshness of language and imagery.

The novel is about Zublinka, a 70-year-old European professor who moved to America for reasons that are slowly, intriguingly revealed. He is an internationally famous philosopher who was a popular professor in Europe and then in America and is recently retired. His area of specialty is logic, but his life is not at all dry and routine. With a great capacity for, and sensitivity to, love and friendship, and with an inspiring imagination and a down-to-earth sense of himself and others, Zublinka is a memorably vivid and touching character. One of the great traits Zublinka has is that he is so entirely alive; he deeply cares about people, places, ideas -- he is an original.

As well as being famous for his own articles on logic, Zublinka has published poems and short stories under a couple of female pen names. His creativity shows up in his writings and in his friendships and romances. This splendid novel is, as its title suggests, focused on Zublinka's relationships (both platonic and sexual) with the women in his life. Zublinka is compassionate and wonderfully perceptive, though his misperceptions are one of the themes of the novel too. Bright and well-read, but not pretentious, Zublinka has an excellent sense of humor and is more likely to laugh at himself than at others.

The suspenseful pacing of the novel is one of the factors that makes the novel such entertaining reading. Another factor is that the unpredictability of events is convincingly life-like and fascinating. The quality of Wexelblatt's writing, which is consistently superb, makes reading this novel a joy.

This is a novel I have bought to give to friends. And I am not the only one to think it is fantastic. It won the First Place Grand Winner in Fiction, 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Award.