Michael Frank

Una novela sobre la desgarradora experiencia de querer ser madre... y no poder.Una de las experiencias más desgarradoras que se le pueden presentar a una mujer al final de la treintena que desea ser madre es descubrir que no puede. "Lo que falta arranca" cuando Costanza Ansaldo, traductora italo-estadounidense, viaja a Italia un verano para dar un nuevo comienzo a su vida, un año despues de la muerte de su marido, el celebre novelista Morton Sarnoff. Costanza esta a punto de cumplir cuarenta años y ha firmado una paz fragil tanto con el duelo como con el hecho de no ser madre. En una visita a la "pensione" de Florencia donde solia alojarse de niña, conoce a Andrew Weissman, un sensible joven de diecisiete años, y a su padre, Henry, carismatico medico especializado en medicina reproductiva. Los tres se reunen de nuevo ese otoño en Nueva York, donde el triangulo amoroso se transformara y se tensara a medida que los tres ahondan en que significa ser padre, hijo o potencial madre. A lo largo del camino, Costanza, Henry y Andrew se veran obligados a enfrentarse a todo lo que falta en sus vidas, y desvelaran importantes verdades sobre la fertilidad, el matrimonio, la familia y la historia personal.

«Lo que siento por Mike es algo fuera de lo normal», oye casualmente Michael Frank que su tía le dice a su madre cuando él es un niño de ocho años. «Es algo más fuerte que yo. No lo puedo explicar...

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEARNATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER'Beautiful, sober and affecting - a testament to remembrance and friendship' - DALIA SOFER'A momentous historic retrieval and work of literary art' - PHILLIP LOPATENearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never shared the full details of her past with anyone. That is until she met Michael Frank, and asked him to help her polish a talk she was to give about life in the Juderia of Rhodes. Neither of them could know that this was the first of one hundred Saturdays that they would spend in each other's company.

Una novela sobre la desgarradora experiencia de querer ser madre... y no poder. Una de las experiencias más desgarradoras que se le pueden presentar a una mujer al final de la treintena que desea ser madre es descubrir que no puede. "Lo que falta arranca" cuando Costanza Ansaldo, traductora italo-estadounidense, viaja a Italia un verano para dar un nuevo comienzo a su vida, un año despues de la muerte de su marido, el celebre novelista Morton Sarnoff. Costanza esta a punto de cumplir cuarenta años y ha firmado una paz fragil tanto con el duelo como con el hecho de no ser madre. En una visita a la "pensione" de Florencia donde solia alojarse de niña, conoce a Andrew Weissman, un sensible joven de diecisiete años, y a su padre, Henry, carismatico medico especializado en medicina reproductiva. Los tres se reunen de nuevo ese otoño en Nueva York, donde el triangulo amoroso se transformara y se tensara a medida que los tres ahondan en que significa ser padre, hijo o potencial madre. A lo largo del camino, Costanza, Henry y Andrew se veran obligados a enfrentarse a todo lo que falta en sus vidas, y desvelaran importantes verdades sobre la fertilidad, el matrimonio, la familia y la historia personal.

«Lo que siento por Mike es algo fuera de lo normal», oye casualmente Michael Frank que su tía le dice a su madre cuando él es un niño de ocho años. «Es algo más fuerte que yo. No lo puedo explicar..

One of The Wall Street Journals Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and Sephardic Culture * Recipient of the Jewish Book Councils Natan Notable Book Award * Winner of the Sophie Brody MedalThe remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the author over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent of her community, and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell the tale.With nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her past. Then she met Michael Frank. He came to her Greenwich Village apartment one Saturday afternoon to ask her a question about the Juderia, the neighborhood on the Greek island of Rhodes where shed grown up in a Jewish community that had thrived there for half a millennium. Neither of them could know this was the first of one hundred Saturdays over the course of six years that they would spend in each others company. During these meetings Stella traveled back in time to conjure what it felt like to come of age on this luminous, legendary island in the eastern Aegean, which the Italians conquered in 1912, began governing as an official colonial possession in 1923, and continued to administer even after the Germans seized control in September 1943. The following July, the Germans rounded up all 1,700-plus residents of the Juderia and sent them first by boat and then by train to Auschwitz on what was the longest journeymeasured by both time and distanceof any of the deportations. Ninety percent of them were murdered upon arrival. Probing and courageous, candid and sly, Stella is a magical modern-day Scheherazade whose stories reveal what it was like to grow up in an extraordinary place in an extraordinary timeand to construct a life after that place has vanished. One Hundred Saturdays is a portrait of one of the last survivors drawn at nearly the last possible moment, as well as an account of a tender and transformative friendship between storyteller and listener, offering a powerful reminder that the ability to listen thoughtfully is a rare and significant gift (The Wall Street Journal).

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A story at once extremely strange and entirely familiar about families, innocence, art and love. This hugely enjoyable, totally unforgettable memoir is a classic in the making. My aunt called our two families the Mighty Franks. But, she said, you and I, Lovey, are a thing apart. The two of us have pulled our wagons up to a secret campsite. We know how lucky we are. Were the most fortunate people in the world to have found each other, isnt it so? Michael Franks upbringing was unusual to say the least. His aunt was his fathers sister and his uncle his mothers brother. The two couples lived blocks apart in the hills of LA, with both grandmothers in an apartment together nearby. Most unusual of all was his aunt, Hankie: a beauty with violet eyelids and leaves fastened in her hair, a woman who thought that conformity was death, a Hollywood screenwriter spinning seductive fantasies. With no children of her own, Hankie took a particular shine to Michael, taking him on Antiquing excursions, telling him about the very last drop of her innermost self, holding him in her orbit in unpredictable ways. This love complicated the delicate balance of the wider family and changed Michaels life forever.