Once Removed David Applefield Hardcover

"A remarkable book intertwinning lives in ways that are real and symbolic at the same time...Applefield is a uniquely talented writer". Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland, Winner of the National Book Award for How We Die<P>"At last - David Applefield's long-awaited novel! And the world according to Applefield is a Janus-head of the U.S. and Europe: America through the eyes of the old culture. Once Removed is a wise and moving novel, informed by empathy, irony, pain and hope. Thomas E. Kennedy, European Editor, Cimarron Review, author of The Book of Angels<P>In 1947, Holocaust survivor Jacob Simon and his identity-shocked eleven year old daughter Dzidzia leave a devastated Europe and a haunted past. Forty years later, in the Intensive Care Unit in a hospital in Houston, Texas, as Jacob Simon struggles for his life, the horrors of the past surface again, memory confounds reality. The banal realities of contemporary America - hospital waiting rooms, fast food restaurants, hotel lobbies - become interw...