The Dreamcloth - by Joanne Fedler (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Mia is in Bosnia as a journalist when she is summoned by Asher, the man she blames for her father's death. In his dying moments, Asher returns the dreamcloth to her, a patchwork of beads and lace he stole when she was just a child.</p><p> The cloth, woven by a seamstress in a grim shtetl in Lithuania, holds the mystery of a forbidden love affair of Mia's grandmother Maya, as she fled the anti-Semitism of Europe in the 1920's. </p><p> Mia returns to her homeland South Africa, on the eve of the first democratic elections where she grapples to make sense of the injustices, absences and hauntings of her childhood. What happened to her artist father Issey, her nanny Sarafina, and her best friend Grace? The dreamcloth with its 'glimmer of blue silk, a moon of filigree lace and woven cobblestones of amber, ' holds the answers to all that has been lost.</p><p>Fedler weaves together the present, past and distant past in a stirring epic of family secrets handed down from generation to generation, and ghosts that will not let go of the living. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>'...make no mistake. <em>The Dreamcloth</em> is the book that marks a watershed moment in South African fiction as it examines the life of exile and the histories that we all bring to our lives... It is the story that flows from the pen of one who understands the wilderness and wildness of the heart and the tempering power of understanding and forgiveness.... A book that glows and fills the heart and mind.' </p><p>- Jennifer Crocker, Cape Times</p><p><br></p><p>'[<em>The Dreamcloth</em>] is intriguing, largely due to the extraordinary sensitivity and lyricism of the writing... It is, in the end, a book about magic and those who dare to unearth it in themselves, despite the strictures of their lives... its language is beguiling, its suggestions challenging, and its effect, haunting.' </p><p>- Gwen Podbrey</p><p><br></p><p>'Fedler effectively evokes both the textures of the shtetl of her grandparents and those of the Johannesburg in which she grew up, peopling them with a range of finely drawn characters in a captivating and somehow haunting work.'</p><p>- Mail & Guardian</p><p>'Fedler is adept at creating poignant, lyrical images all the more evocative because they play in our own memory.'</p><p>- Sunday Independent</p><p><br></p><p>'[<em>The Dreamcloth</em>] underpins the idea that thriving in the aftermath (of trauma) is possible after all.' </p><p>- Ewald Mengel, University of Vienna </p><p><br></p><p>'The Dreamcloth is a brilliant debut novel... it is a story about exile and the pain of exile, and the joy of return.'</p><p>- Brain Joss </p><br>
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