Ebook {Epub PDF} In the Land of Armadillos: Stories by Helen Maryles Shankman

 · “Following in the footsteps of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Shalom Aleichem, Helen Maryles Shankman is an exquisite storyteller of early 20th century Eastern European Jewish life Readers of In the Land of Armadillos will encounter vibrant tales of extraordinary people, good and evil, in a twisted, macabre life. Here, the old rules are no longer valid.  · HELEN MARYLES SHANKMAN. Author of THEY WERE LIKE FAMILY TO ME, a collection of linked stories illuminated with magical realism, following the inhabitants of a small town in Poland and tracing the troubling complex choices they are compelled to make. This debut collection of short stories by Helen Maryles Shankman is brilliant, poignant, evocative, utterly absorbing, and a must read for aficionados of Holocaust era fiction. The first story, the book title, “In the Land of Armadillos”, presents us with the ambiguity of moral dilemma, as perceived by a soldier; the necessity of distorting humanistic sensibility in the face of wartime atrocity/5(63).

www.doorway.ru: In the Land of Armadillos (): Shankman, Helen Maryles, Wiley, Elizabeth: Books. Blending folklore and fact, Helen Maryles Shankman shows us the people of Wlodawa, a remote Polish town: we meet a cold-blooded SS officer dedicated to rescuing the creator of his son s favorite picture book, even as he helps exterminate the artist s friends and family; a Messiah who appears in a little boy s bedroom to announce that he is. HELEN MARYLES SHANKMAN. Author of THEY WERE LIKE FAMILY TO ME, a collection of linked stories illuminated with magical realism, following the inhabitants of a small town in Poland and tracing the troubling complex choices they are compelled to make.

Two-time Pushcart Prize nomine Helen Maryles Shankman weaves historical fact and Jewish folklore in the eight haunting tales of In the Land of Armadillos. In the title story we meet a gifted painter and writer—the consumptive captive of a notorious SS officer—whose painted subjects become unwitting recipients of a blessing. HELEN MARYLES SHANKMAN. Author of THEY WERE LIKE FAMILY TO ME, a collection of linked stories illuminated with magical realism, following the inhabitants of a small town in Poland and tracing the troubling complex choices they are compelled to make. “Following in the footsteps of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Shalom Aleichem, Helen Maryles Shankman is an exquisite storyteller of early 20th century Eastern European Jewish life Readers of In the Land of Armadillos will encounter vibrant tales of extraordinary people, good and evil, in a twisted, macabre life. Here, the old rules are no longer valid.