The Flight of the Veil - Berger, Bruce J
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"A well-crafted tale about trauma and miracles." -Kirkus Reviews Nicky Covo is a Holocaust survivor. In 1990, Nicky - a Brooklyn psychiatrist - receives a letter from Abbess Fevronia, the head of a women's monastery in Greece. Although Nicky believes the rest of his family died at Auschwitz, he learns that Theodora, a mysteriously silent nun who's lived at the monastery since 1944, may be his baby sister, Kal. With his old friend and new love, Helen, Nicky returns to Greece - to harrowing memories of his fighting with the partisans and to a reunion with his beloved sister. The Flight of the…mehr

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"A well-crafted tale about trauma and miracles." -Kirkus Reviews Nicky Covo is a Holocaust survivor. In 1990, Nicky - a Brooklyn psychiatrist - receives a letter from Abbess Fevronia, the head of a women's monastery in Greece. Although Nicky believes the rest of his family died at Auschwitz, he learns that Theodora, a mysteriously silent nun who's lived at the monastery since 1944, may be his baby sister, Kal. With his old friend and new love, Helen, Nicky returns to Greece - to harrowing memories of his fighting with the partisans and to a reunion with his beloved sister. The Flight of the Veil explores the intersections of guilt and memory, faith and tragedy, fate and miracle.
Autorenporträt
Following a 40-year career as a trial lawyer, Bruce J. Berger received his MFA in Creative Writing from American University in Washington, DC, and now teaches there. His first two novels, also published by Black Rose Writing, The Flight of the Veil and The Music Stalker, are prequels to To See God and both have won awards. Berger has also published roughly 50 poems and short stories as well as the non-fiction book Return to Sender: 224 Unanswered Letters to the White House. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, Laurie, and just down the street from the two grandchildren to whom he has dedicated To See God.