Café Nevo: A Novel - Softcover

Rogan, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1497637090 ISBN 13: 9781497637092

Verlag: Open Road Integrated Media LLC, 2014

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"A wonderful novel . . . vivid . . . unforgettable." -San Francisco Chronicle "Fresh, funny, tragic, violent, sexy, mystical and romantic . . . Barbara Rogan's style is utterly engaging...works beautifully." -The Christian Science Monitor "From the very first line of CAFE NEVO we are in the hands of a real storyteller. Barbara Rogan writes with compelling grace." -Alice Hoffman "Indeed a wonderful novel . . . with richly developed characters acting and interacting . . . the cafe and its clients will long remain in memory." -Madeleine L'Engle

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Café Nevo is a Tel Aviv gathering place for artists, politicians, lovers, and Bohemians-Arabs and Jews, young and old, conservative and radical. Nevo is presided over by Emmanual Sternholz, the waiter whose unblinking gaze takes in the tangled web of destinies and desires spun out around him. In this comic, tragic, and compelling mosaic of intertwined lives, Barbara Rogan has created a dazzling work of fiction-and a marvelously illuminating mirror of Israel in its pioneering heyday. Barbara Rogan has spent virtually all of her career in the publishing industry: as an editor, a literary agent, a writer, and a teacher. She graduated from St. John's College with a liberal arts degree and started working as a copy editor with a major New York publishing house. Shortly thereafter, she moved to Israel, where she became the English-language editor of a Tel Aviv publishing house, and a while later she launched the Barbara Rogan Literary Agency to represent American and European publishers and agents for the sale of Hebrew rights. Among the thousands of writers she represented were Nadine Gordimer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Abba Eban, Irwin Shaw, John LeCarre, and her childhood favorite Madeleine L'Engle. At the age of twenty-six, she was appointed to the board of directors of the Jerusalem Book Fair, the youngest director ever to serve on the board. During this period, her first novel, Changing States, was published simultaneously in England, the US, and Israel. For some time, she continued to write and run the agency, but eventually followed her passion to become a full-time writer. Since then, she has produced seven more novels, including Hindsight, Suspicion, and Rowing in Eden. Her publishers include Simon & Schuster, Morrow, and Doubleday, and her fiction has been translated widely and graciously reviewed. About Suspicion, the Washington Post wrote, "If you can put this book down before you've finished it, it's possible that your heart may have stopped beating." "What Bonfire of the Vanities tried to be," Library Journal wrote of Saving Grace. Café Nevo was called "unforgettable" by the San Francisco Chronicle and "an inspired, passionate work of fiction, a near-magical novel" by Kirkus Reviews. Rogan also coauthored two nonfiction books, published by Crown and Harcourt Brace, and contributed essays to several published anthologies. To read more about Rogan's work, visit her website, www.barbararogan.com. Rogan taught fiction writing at Hofstra University and SUNY Farmingdale for several years before trading her brick-and-mortar classroom for a virtual one. Her online courses and editing services are described on her teaching website, www.nextlevelworkshop.com. As a professional whose experience spans all aspects of publishing, Barbara is a frequent presenter at writers' conferences, seminars, and retreats.

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• Verlag: Open Road Integrated Media LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1497637090
• ISBN 13: 9781497637092
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258