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A Dove of the East: And Other Stories
A Dove of the East: And Other Stories
A Dove of the East: And Other Stories
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A Dove of the East: And Other Stories

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This “dazzling collection” of short stories by the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Winter’s Talecontemplates the human experience across the globe (The San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner).
 
In these twenty stories, Mark Helprin offers a series of meditations on some of humanity’s most enduring and universal questions. At the hour of his death, an American priest in Rome must choose between his church and his God. A young man finds love in a hot, dirty typewriter-ribbon factory in the Bronx. A Dutch child in a Canadian orphanage carries the pain of war and her love for her family in her heart. An Israeli scout risks the safety and respect of his comrades in an act of transformative charity. 
 
Through beautifully rendered memories and moments of epiphany, “all Helprin's stories deal with essences which lead from the heart…his images are clean and sharp and bright” (Kirkus).
 
“When you read these stories, a you must, you will, I believe, be uplifted and awed.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 5, 2012
ISBN9780544052864
A Dove of the East: And Other Stories
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Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin is the acclaimed author of Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, The Oceans and the Stars, Freddy and Fredericka, The Pacific, Ellis Island, Memoir from Antproof Case, and numerous other works. His novels are read around the world, translated into over twenty languages.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Twenty short stories by Mark Helprin. Although reviews of the stories seem to find a theme, I didn't find one. Instead, I was caught up in the beauty of the writing, the descriptive phrases one of Helprin's greatest talents. If you want your stories' endings tied up neat and proper, these stories are not for you. They leave so much to think about that I had to put the book aside after each story. I'm a great fan of Helprin's longer novels, and I'm pleased to find that his short stories have the same visual essence.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    More elves disguised as humans, and Rivendell disguised as Maine. I like that Helprin inspires us to see the transcendence of the world -- to see it as transcendently lovely, transcendently cruel, as a living artifact of the creator's might and incomprehensibility. That said, despite much, much beauty, I found myself wanting to stop reading. Levi learned that soft lesson, and it became the steel of his life4.7.08

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