Jacob's Advice (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Jude Cook | knygos.lt

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Jacob's Advice is the story of Larry Frost, a British doctor living in Paris, who is convinced he is Jewish. An exuberant philosemite, Larry has long had his suspicions (and hopes). Now he's dating a Jewish woman, Ariel Levine, and living with her family in the Marais, he has even more reason to try to prove it.

The tale is told through the eyes of his sceptical cousin, Nick Newman, as he tries to understand his own place in the world. Nick, a historian specialising in revolutionary France, is divorced, missing his seven-year-old son, and struggling with the after-effects of an adverse reaction to an antibiotic which has left him with extensive nerve damage. When the Sorbonne offers him a research fellowship, he is thrilled. He hopes that Larry, a neuro-pharmacologist who campaigns against Big Pharma, will help him get legal revenge on the drugs company that has wrecked his health.

And then disaster strikes Paris - the terrorist attacks of 13 November. With both cousins in emotional disarray, and the city in trauma, they finally hear from an old man in Amsterdam, Jacob Bloom, who wants to tell them a family secret linked to the dark days of WWII that will change both cousins' lives forever.

Set against a backdrop of increased extremism, nationalism, and the resurgence of antisemitism, Jacob's Advice is an urgent and topical exploration of identity, race, family, modern Europe, and the inescapable nature of the past.