Abraham Rothberg  - Author

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New Fiction by Abraham Rothberg

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High Praise for Rothberg in:
NY Times, Harper's, Time Magazine, Publishers Weekly


New Essays by Rothberg
In Partial Praise of Marriage
The Iraqi Road 
Cultivate Your Own Garden 
The Taste Of The Past; A Brooklyn Nostalgia


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Abraham Rothberg is the author of thirteen published novels, among them THE HEIRS OF CAIN, THE THOUSAND DOORS, and THE OTHER MAN'S SHOES. He has also published two books of history, a collection of short stories, two children's books, and a volume of literary criticism. 

His short stories, essays, poems and articles have appeared in many publications and been reprinted in a number of anthologies and textbooks, including THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, where three of his stories appeared.  He was twice winner of the John H. McGinnis Award, once for fiction, a second time for nonfiction.  The Rochester Literary Prize for a body of written work was also conferred on him. 

A native New Yorker, Rothberg has traveled widely on three continents and worked at a variety of jobs in industry, government, publishing, journalism, and university teaching.
 


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New by Abraham Rothberg:
Coming To Terms

$17.96 Printed: 392 pages, 6.0 x 9.0 in.,
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Coming to Terms is a novel exploring the lives of half a dozen friends and colleagues of differing generations—Hippies and Boomers, Gen-Xers and Vietnam and World War II veterans— as they strive to find meaning and happiness in the tidal wave of change inundating the America of the late 20th century and the beginnings of the 21st. All are caught up in a struggle with themselves and each other in trying to move their lives forward and make sense of their respective pasts, their personal commitments as wives and mothers, husbands and fathers, lovers and loners, young and old, heterosexuals and homosexuals, soldiers and civilians. As they come to terms with their pasts, they define their presents and discover their futures, some willingly, but most reluctantly. In doing so, they fracture the circles of their families, friendships and allegiances, and discover the prices human beings must pay in contending with society's constraints on the individual's struggle for freedom and pursuit of happiness.

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New by Abraham Rothberg:
The Former People

$13.95 Printed: 271 pages, 6.0 x 9.0 in.,
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$3.99 Download: PDF (800 kb)
ISBN: 1-4116-6331-4
 

THE FORMER PEOPLE  is an international novel set variously in Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Vienna, Budapest and New York. It deals with the lives of those "former people" who were once important men in politics, diplomacy, Intelligence and the arts after they have lost their positions of power and influence. Exiles and émigrés, ex-diplomats and Intelligence agents, former prizewinning poets and novelists, Party hacks and Party mavericks, they are all either struggling to resume their former more exalted positions, or giving up the pride of place they once enjoyed and coming to terms with their present circumstances.

This spellbinding tale of friendship and enmity, of loyalty and betrayal, of pride and humility, that unites and divides a group of remarkable individuals, who are involved in the Hungarian Revolution and its aftermath, makes fascinating reading. It gives penetrating insights into how international policies are arrived at, how revolutions are won and lost, how the people who make the policies and fight the revolutions fare, and who pays the prices for their failures. In doing so, The Former People also makes clearer the mystery of how the Soviet Empire would, in the not-too-distant future, fall apart.

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New by Abraham Rothberg:
The Torii Gate: A Novel Of Japan

$13.95 Printed: 253 pages, 6.0 x 9.0 in.,
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$4.35 Download: PDF (785 kb)
ISBN: 1-4116-5610-5

THE TORII GATE, a novel set in present-day Japan, involves six major characters, three Japanese and three Americans, both men and women, caught up in a right-wing conspiracy to overthrow the Japanese government.  The conspirators, who call themselves the "Samurai Society," believe that democratic rule runs counter to Japanese history and tradition, and is an alien import of American culture.   The "Society" is set on overturning the government to restore Japan to its "essential Samurai traditions" and Emperor-worship, and at the same time to purge Japan of American influence. The major characters include an internationally known Japanese novelist who is the founder and head of the "Samurai Society," his wife and ward, his American translator, and two American diplomats assigned to the American embassy in Tokyo.

 Told through the eyes of the American translator, a long-time friend of the Japanese writer, the story takes the six major characters through the coup and its aftermath.  All the individuals have differing views of Japan, of America, of the purposes and possibilities of the coup, and of one another.  Not only are they involved with one another politically, but personally, as colleagues, friends, and lovers.  In portraying their lives and the events in which they are caught up, the novel also depicts the dilemmas facing modern Japan, simultaneously evoking its ancient history and, most particularly, its history since Japan's defeat in World War II.

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New by Abraham Rothberg:
Pinocchio’s Sister
        ~ A Feminist Fable

$11.95 Printed: 159 pages, 6.0 x 9.0 in.,
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ISBN: 1-4116-4347-X
 

Not long after the old carpenter Geppetto made the marionette he named Pinocchio, and happily saw the marionette turn into a live boy, he finds himself deeply disappointed in the boy he looks on as his son.  Pinocchio cheats, plays hooky from school, thinks only of himself, and lies again and again to cover his selfishness and misdeeds.  But his nose betrays him; every time he lies, Pinocchio's nose grows longer. Still, when Pinocchio runs away from home and disappears, Geppetto is broken-hearted.

One day he finds a beautiful piece of walnut wood, and is driven to make another marionette of it.  This one turns out to be a girl he names Gelsomina.  She is everything Pinocchio is not, generous, warm-hearted, eager to go to school and learn; in short, she is a joy to the old carpenter's heart.  Yet to his amazement, he finds that, in contrast to Pinocchio, Gelsomina's nose grows not when she tells a lie but only when she tells the truth.

In spite of Gelsomina's kindness and caring for him, Geppetto misses Pinocchio, worrying about what happened to him, so Gelsomina sets out to find Pinocchio and bring him home.  How she does so is a magical and charming fairy tale of how goodness triumphs, in which Gelsomina saves Pinocchio’s life, changes Geppetto's life for the better, and learns how to deal with telling the truth and lying until at last she becomes a real live girl, a daughter to Geppetto and a sister to Pinocchio.

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New by Abraham Rothberg:
The Holy Warriors

$13.95 Printed: 331 pages, 6.0 x 9.0 in.,
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ISBN: 1-4116-3038-6

A clandestine cell of Arab jihadis led by an Egyptian Colonel of Intelligence and a firebrand Imam combine to bomb the Federal Reserve, the New York Stock Exchange, the United Nations and both the Protestant and Jewish theological seminaries.  Their intentions are to strike at various significant symbols of American life and thereby force the American President to show himself publicly to reassure New York's citizens. Once he comes to New York, they plan to assassinate him.

A small special committee from C.I.A., the F.B.I., U.S. Army Intelligence and the New York City Police, aided by an Arabic-speaking Israeli Mossad agent is appointed to hunt the jihadis down before they can do any further damage and to prevent them from killing the President.

A cliff-hanger novel of suspense, The Holy Warriors shows us the deadly chess game between these two forces, from both the jihadis’ side and the American side, as well as the seething violence and the savage personal dramas beneath the hunters and the hunted.

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New by Abraham Rothberg:
A Beast in View

$12.95 Printed: 206 pages, 6.0 x 9.0 in.,
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ISBN: 1-4116-3200-1
 

The Second World War has just ended, and in the first post­war summer, a group of veterans—soldiers, sailors, and Marines, men and women—come home to the United States bringing the war with them like a disease they have contracted and are intent on curing. From all parts of the country, a group of them arrive at the renowned Writers' Workshop of Amelia Whiteside in New York City in search of peace, purpose and meaning.  In that workshop, under the tutelage of the strange and estranged Miss Whiteside, herself a disappointed writer and editor, and also a veteran of her own wars, they try to come to terms with what they have done in the war, and what the war has done to them.

They do what most people do when they return from conflicts: They try to fit themselves into a peaceful society.  They study; they get drunk, they search for God; they fall in love; they marry and divorce; and most of all they try to shape a future for themselves and their generation.  Except that these are veterans who, at the same time, are trying to put their experiences and insights down on paper for publication for others to read and understand.  It is this "Beast in View" they all pursue, and it is in portraying that pursuit that Abraham Rothberg gives us a series of unforgettable events and characters who come to learn that peace is war by other means.

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