Justice edition by Carey Harrison Literature Fiction eBooks
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PRAISE for 'JUSTICE'
A fine achievement.. .a big-hearted book that will linger long in my mind.
--Rose Tremain
A novel about mid-20th century Italy Miri, a Jewish girl from London marries an Italian communist nobleman, but her safety is threatened when Mussolini's Fascist government begins deporting Jews to the death camps. Miri escapes to England, leaving her son in her husband's hands. Local politics takes a hand in their fate, however, with terrible consequences. When the war ends, Miri returns to a devastated Italy, seeking a reckoning. If needs be, revenge.
PRAISE FOR Richard's Feet
“Work of near-demonic beauty, antic imagination
and universal resonance.” San Francisco Chronicle
“A darkly comic vision, entirely original.” Guardian
“Brilliant, gigantic, appalling.” Daily Telegraph
"Essential reading" The Financial Times
"Bawdy, turbulent, rife with fiendish beauty" The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Rivetingly entertaining" The Daily Telegraph
"A hypnotic novel, very clever, very imaginative, a breathtaking attempt to get a handle on the entire human condition" The Mail on Sunday
"Astonishing, affecting, holds the reader spellbound" Publishers Weekly
"Tremendous, a catapult of a novel" The Kansas Star
"As thorough an examination of postwar European consciousness as Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain was of its era" American Library Journal
"Breadth of vision, massive feats of scale and formal ingenuity" The Guardian
"An enthralling novel, written with imaginative verve in language of strength and clarity, recounted with masterly skill" The Irish Times
"Ambitious and fascinating, a very fine writer, exquisite in his descriptive prowess" The Irish Sunday Press
"…this novelist of such amazing dexterity, humanity, inventive skill. He reminds me of Durrell, of Burgess – yet with a sense of tenderness often missing in those showmen. I've since read as much as I can of this writer, unfailingly inventive – as I read his work, I often feel (as with Powys often, and Lawrence sometimes) that I'm reading a detective story that turns to be about me" --Robert Kelly, Books of the Year, Readysteadybook.com
Justice edition by Carey Harrison Literature Fiction eBooks
The loss of any family member is difficult to come to terms with. For Jews in Italy, the Holocaust made such losses horrible. The young Jewess Miri arrives in pre-war Italy as the naive bride of Piero, a handsome, adventuresome count. With the addition of their son Vittorio and the special closeness between mother and son comes the opportunity Cipriano has been waiting for to seek vengeance for an old slight by Piero's mother; he uses the politics of Hitler and the Nazis to send Vittorio to Auschwitz after Piero sends Miri to safety in England. He fails to reckon on Miri seeking revenge. The descriptions of the land and hills are beautiful, but are repeated more than necessary. It would have been helpful if more paragraphs breaks were used and at least some of the action had been dialogue rather than so much narration to let the charactes show their emotions in place of repeated descriptions. The story's narrator, Baldini, pops in and out to explain how he knows this story until he finally appears with Miri at the end. A pretty good read that kept me mostly interested.Product details
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Justice edition by Carey Harrison Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Wonderful characters- fully developed. Great prose style. Wonderful story that makes you think about the invisible forces that narrate your own story, dear reader. I can't wait for the next installment
Without dialog, Justice lacks intense drama. This old-fashioned style narrative, while vivid in its description, never drew me into the story. The choice of it being told as a narrative of something long past depleted potential excitement. It is risky for an author to tell not show a story, for what comes across is a cut an dried precis. Thee was ample opportunity in "Justice" to make things truly dramatic and vivid. Didn't happen for me, and I turned to other books on my .
It explores the guilt and emotional issues after the war. To what extent do we punish and search out all those involved in the the terrible event of the war in Italy. It especially brings the problems of post war Italy, where we have several conflicts, locally, regionally, and nationally. At first I was a little bored with the set up of this novel, but as the story continued I could not
put it down. I loved how he weaved all the emotional and personal issues of this horrible time in history. This is one the first books that I have read with a very different approach to some very big issues. I have read several books on this topic, and I would would recommend it to people who are interested in this historical time period.
Author Carey Harrison, in this lovely and moving novel, achieves what few literary works can, that of being a genuinely intimate epic. The shadow of the Holocaust writ both large and small, and larger and smaller, and all of these facets equally brilliant in their imagining. Interestingly, or at least I hope so, it even brought back memories of Andres Schwartz-Bart's classic, THE LAST OF THE JUST, most acutely in Miri's excruciating re-imagining of the pain her child, Vittorio, suffered alone, rounded up, herded to the death camp, gassed in the chambers. Their story, their bond, is that of a power, it would seem, beyond mortality. Mother, son. Two people, one being. A raging in the shared soul of raw existence.
JUSTICE is the best example of the literary axiom I have always found true if you go for the universal, you get the general.; but if you go for the specific, you get the universal. This novel traverses the full landscape of the human experience pre and post WWII, in a manner both intensely personal in its wrenching and magnified individual psychology, and yet at the same time sweeping in its historical scope . This is no small feat, and in fact it is the most difficult in literature, IMO.
From its lush descriptions of the Ligurian coast, to the intertwined and complex relationships of a small town, to the tragic pain of unimaginable suffering and loss, to the redemptive quality of a more humane and forgiving sort of JUSTICE that will surprise and shed light, this novel is a real work of subtle genius from a wildly talented and accomplished writer, whom far more people should be aware of. (ADDED BONUS TIP For those who want to read his earlier, and equally grand, opus of this time period, get a copy of RICHARD'S FEET and dive into that demonic work of mad joy.)
. . . then you'll like Justice better than I did! It's all interior monologue recollecting significant events in a man's lifetime as he observed and has learned about the tragedies invading the lives of three or four persons he has observed closely during the years immediately before, during, and after WWII. Me, I just believe in the power and immediacy of how character and conflict are revealed when people are set talking and acting in each other's presence. I found some remembered dialogue here and there and enjoyed those pages, but after twenty more pages of monologue, I'd skip forward again, searching for speech and actions. I guess this says more about my tastes than Carey Harrison's skills as a writer. What did hold my attention was the subtlety and finely tuned observation powers of the narrator. Not since I read Joyce's Ulysses have I found a narrative where the monologue was so sustained and so suggestive.
The loss of any family member is difficult to come to terms with. For Jews in Italy, the Holocaust made such losses horrible. The young Jewess Miri arrives in pre-war Italy as the naive bride of Piero, a handsome, adventuresome count. With the addition of their son Vittorio and the special closeness between mother and son comes the opportunity Cipriano has been waiting for to seek vengeance for an old slight by Piero's mother; he uses the politics of Hitler and the Nazis to send Vittorio to Auschwitz after Piero sends Miri to safety in England. He fails to reckon on Miri seeking revenge. The descriptions of the land and hills are beautiful, but are repeated more than necessary. It would have been helpful if more paragraphs breaks were used and at least some of the action had been dialogue rather than so much narration to let the charactes show their emotions in place of repeated descriptions. The story's narrator, Baldini, pops in and out to explain how he knows this story until he finally appears with Miri at the end. A pretty good read that kept me mostly interested.
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