Book description:
In 1970, Lenny can no longer deny that his wife is undergoing a profound change. Despite her relatively young age, her mind succumbs to forgetfulness. Now, he goes as far back as the moment he met Natasha during WWII, when he was a soldier and she—a star, brilliant yet illusive. Natasha was a riddle to him then, and to this day, with all the changes she has gone through, she still is. “Digging into the past, mining its moments, trying to piece them together this way and that, dusting off each memory of Natasha, of how we were, the highs and lows of the music of us, to find out where the problem may have started?”
To their son, Ben, that may seem like an exercise in futility. For Lenny, it is a necessary process of discovery, one that is as tormenting as it is delightful. He often wonders: can we ever understand, truly understand each other—soldier and musician, man and woman, one heart and another? Will we ever again dance together to the same beat? Is there a point where we may still touch?
Do you like historical fiction about the 20th century, especially when it is tinged with romance and wrapped in a family saga? Then this series, Still Life with Memories, is for you.
Author Bio:
Uvi Poznansky is a California-based
author, poet and artist. Her writing and her art are tightly coupled. “I paint
with my pen,” she says, “and write with my paintbrush.”
She earned her B. A. in Architecture
and Town Planning from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. During her studies and in
the years immediately following her graduation, she practiced with an
innovative Architectural firm, taking part in the design of a large-scale
project, Home for the Soldier.
At the age of 25 Uvi moved to Troy,
N.Y. with her husband and two children. Before long, she received a Fellowship
grant and a Teaching Assistantship from the Architecture department at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she guided teams in a variety of design
projects; and where she earned her M.A. in Architecture. Then, taking a sharp
turn in her education, she earned her M.S. degree in Computer Science from the
University of Michigan.
During the years she spent in
advancing her career—first as an architect, and later as a software engineer,
software team leader, software manager and a software consultant (with an
emphasis on user interface for medical instruments devices)—she wrote and
painted constantly. In addition, she taught art appreciation classes.
Her versatile body of work can be
seen on her website, which includes poem, short stories, bronze and ceramic
sculptures, paper engineering projects, oil and watercolor paintings, charcoal,
pen and pencil drawings, and mixed media. In addition, she posts her thoughts
about the creative process on her blog,
and engages readers and writers in conversation on her Goodreads Q&A group.
Uvi published a poetry book in
collaboration with her father, Zeev Kachel. Later she published two children
books, Jess and Wiggle and Now I Am Paper, which
she illustrated, and for which she created animations. You can find these
animations on her author page on Amazon, and her author page on
Goodreads.
Apart From Love is an intimate peek into the life of a strange family:
Natasha, the accomplished pianist, has been stricken with early-onset
Alzheimer’s. Her ex-husband Lenny has never told their son Ben, who left home
ten years ago, about her situation. At the same time he, Lenny, has been
carrying on a love affair with a young redhead, who bears a striking physical
resemblance to his wife—but unlike her, is uneducated, direct and unrefined.
This is how things stand at this moment, the moment of Ben’s return to his
childhood home, and to a contentious relationship with his father. The Music
of Us takes the characters back to the beginning of WWII, when Lenny feel
in love with Natasha.
Home, her deeply moving poetry book in tribute of her father,
includes her poetry and prose, as well as translated poems from the pen of her
father, the poet and author Zeev Kachel.
A Favorite Son, her novella, is a new-age twist on an old yarn. It is
inspired by the biblical story of Jacob and his mother Rebecca, plotting together
against the elderly father Isaac, who is lying on his deathbed. This is no old
fairy tale. Its power is here and now, in each one of us.
Twisted is a unique collection of tales. In it, the author
brings together diverse tales, laden with shades of mystery. Here, you will
come into a dark, strange world, a hyper-reality where nearly everything is
firmly rooted in the familiar—except for some quirky detail that twists the
yarn, and takes it for a spin in an unexpected direction.
The David Chronicles includes three volumes: Rise to Power, A Peek at
Bathsheba, and The Edge of Revolt. Together they tell the story
of David as you have never heard it before: from the king himself, telling the
unofficial version, the one he never allowed his court scribes to recount. In
his mind, history is written to praise the victorious—but at the last stretch
of his illustrious life, he feels an irresistible urge to tell the truth.
These books are available in all
three editions (audiobook, print and ebook.)
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