"The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and its Meaning." Peter Trachtenberg
Date of Review:
06/18/2008
Source:
Publishers Weekly-- Religion Bookline
Review Excerpt:
"This book is 'a layman's response' to unimaginable anguish, a collection of powerful stories rather than a philosophical treatise. Writing movingly about victims and survivors of natural disasters, war, genocide, domestic violence, addiction, illness, suicide and injustice, he deftly intermingles their stories with observations from religion, philosophy and literature. . . . Trachtenberg offers no easy solutions. His book, however, like Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, succeeds because it asks the right questions, calls on the experience of articulate witnesses, and—through skillful narrative and trenchant observation—beguiles the reader into facing heartbreaking reality."
- Login Or register To Post Comments
- Send To A Friend
- Bookmark With:
