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Akashic Books
October 2003
On Sale: October 1, 2003
300 pages
ISBN: 188845153X
EAN: 9781888451535
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Women's Fiction
Clara Sverdlow has been stalked by Niko Kamenski, her high-
school lover, for almost twenty years. A recently sober
alcoholic in her mid thirties, she has found happiness in
a tenuous new marriage to Mark. Yet the past lurks over
them like a great shadow, always encroaching on their
happiness. Clara Sverdlow's father, Viktor, was a
Russian political prisoner in Auschwitz. He was involved
in the camp underground, helping to "organize" much-needed
goods to help the prisoners. But he also worked on the
train ramps and helped to guide thousands of innocent
victims to the gas chambers. The guilt and horror Viktor
still carries with him are part of his daughter Clara's
natural composition, something she doesn't understand and
yet accepts as one would a congenital illness. It shapes
her every action, and is at the root of her every phobia.
Mark has his own demons -- a brother dead from a drug
overdose, and connections to his hometown heavies, which
he can’t seem to break free of. Yet together they
have found a fragile grace. With a miracle baby, they are
trying to forget the past and learn to live normally in
the world. But Clara's stalker Niko Kamenski secretly
insinuates himself upon their life, with disastrous
consequences. Clara and Mark's only hope is to address the
past, and confront the present situation before it’s too
late.
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