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This Magnificent Dappled Sea
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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This Magnificent Dappled Sea
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Publisher's Summary
Two strangers - generations and oceans apart - have a chance to save each other in this moving and suspenseful novel about family secrets and the ineffable connections that lead us to one another.
In a small Northern Italian village, nine-year-old Luca Taviano catches a stubborn cold and is subsequently diagnosed with leukemia. His only hope for survival is a bone marrow transplant. After an exhaustive search, a match turns up three thousand miles away in the form of a most unlikely donor: Joseph Neiman, a rabbi in Brooklyn, New York, who is suffering from a debilitating crisis of faith. As Luca’s young nurse, Nina Vocelli, risks her career and races against time to help save the spirited redheaded boy, she uncovers terrible secrets from World War II - secrets that reveal how a Catholic child could have Jewish genes.
Can inheritance be transcended by accidents of love? That is the question at the heart of This Magnificent Dappled Sea, a novel that challenges the idea of identity and celebrates the ties that bind us together.
What the critics say
"Plenty of heart and compassion. Biro’s ambitious dive into the mysteries of family origins will move readers." --Publishers Weekly
"Physician and author Biro examines the secrets that people carry and how they shape and distort the ways one sees the world. A story of interconnection and the boundaries that too often keep us apart." --Booklist
"This Magnificent Dappled Sea by David Biro is a deftly crafted novel by an author with a genuine flair for originality and the kind of narrative storytelling style that both entertains and provokes thoughtful reflection. The kind of literary work that will linger in the mind and memory long after the book itself has been finished and set back upon the shelf." --Midwest Book Review
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Anna C.
- 2021-01-13
Charming but struggled with the language
This is a sweet story about a young boy’s struggle for identity and belonging. I was challenged though by the language of “real” used through to identify biological family members. Sentences such as “but these are your real grandparents” is something I struggle with as “real” family to me means the people who love and support and care for you, not progenitors. It really impacted my overall enjoyment of what was otherwise a moving and compelling narrative.
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