roll of the dice - Couverture souple

Sprecher, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1539842266 ISBN 13 : 9781539842262

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Sunday, 14 march 1948 The small blue Ford pickup turned pulled up with its engine running across the ticket line of a movie house in Tel-Aviv. Two men wearing khaki sweaters and wool caps with a barely discernible embroidered Star of David and Sten guns slung over their shoulders pulled Michael out of the line and rushed him onto the back of the pickup. It took off as soon as he was hoisted aboard and the two men jumped in after them. From beginning to end, the incident took less than a minute. This abduction brought Michael into the Israeli Defense Forces and an isolated village of religious Bessarabian pioneers in Arab territory. A romance develops amid an existential battle for survival, between Michael, a non-observing refugee of Nazi Germany, and Rivka, the dark-eyed daughter of the village parents, both striving to free themselves from the respective cultures of their forbearers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

I arrived with my family on the shores of Palestine during the Arab riots of 1936 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. I am a veteran of the Israel War of Independence, for which I was awarded the Independence ribbon. In my home town Tel-Aviv I studied fine art and graphic design in my youth at the Urwand Studio, and have worked as an illustrator and commercial artist in both Israel and the U.S. As a member of that studio I worked on the planning and preparation of graphic materials for the 25th Anniversary Exhibition of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. I also designed and executed exhibitions in Tel-Aviv and produced book illustrations, including children books. Concurrent with artistic activities I studied mathematics at The Hebrew University, coming to the United States in 1955 to pursue my graduate education; I studied at Columbia University the University of Maryland, from which I earned a Ph.D. in mathematics. My scientific work includes six books on mathematics published by Harper and Row, Academic Press, and Dover, and articles published in mathematics and neural network journals. Fiction writing interspersed with mathematical research began in the 1980s, leading subsequently to the completion of an autobiography and five novels within the past ten years. During this period I continued publishing articles on neural networks and a historical study: From algebra to computational algorithms, soon to appear in print. I live in New York next to one of two daughters from a previous marriage and her family; my other daughter lives in Syracuse in upstate New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1539842266
• ISBN 13: 9781539842262
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 194
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg