The Sensualist edition by Daniel Torday Literature Fiction eBooks
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Raised in Baltimore in the ‘90s, 17-year-old Samuel Gerson is ready to be rid of his high school baseball team, his protective upbringing, and the tight-knit Jewish community in which he’s spent his whole life. But when he befriends enigmatic Dmitri Zilber, a recent Russian Jewish immigrant who is obsessed with the works of Dostoevsky, Samuel’s world begins to shift. In the wake of his grandfather’s suicide, as his life increasingly entangles with that of Dmitri and his beautiful sister Yelizaveta, it sets in motion a series of events that culminates in a disturbing act of violence. A quietly devastating portrait of late adolescence, The Sensualist examines the culture we inherit as it collides with the one we create.
The Sensualist edition by Daniel Torday Literature Fiction eBooks
My son had this book as equipped reading for his 11th grade English class. I read along and must say I read in one sitting. This book really makes you think. I highly recommendProduct details
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The Sensualist edition by Daniel Torday Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
There are times when a book is sent for review and the moment it arrives it rises to the top of the stack, not only because the theme of the book is inviting, but also because in this world of ether books and chap books along comes an author and a publisher who retain the dignity of the concept of a limited edition form of a story - an homage to the history of great literature that is so very refreshing. THE SENSUALIST by new author Daniel Torday is presented by Nouvella Publishers in a limited edition (mine is 176/600) small scale form that matches the `novella' size of the story, and places it on fine paper with an elegant colophon (design is by Daniel A'Arcy). It is inviting even before beginning to read.
Daniel Torday is an effortless storyteller, a writer who has the ability to let words flow onto the page with elegant simplicity yet rich with imagery and atmosphere, but who never lets `style' get in the way of sharing the story at hand. As extensive the number of coming of age stories is Torday creates a new one - simple yet peppered with all the emotions of that special and terrifying time of life when childhood memories are less accessible and the realities of discovering love - of the opposite and of friends and of parents and grandparents and all progenitors - crack open the bubble of the world outside and insist on entrance. Torday takes that rite of passage and alters it with a healthy subset of story in that his best friend is form Russian (a recent immigrant) and brings with him an entirely different palette of experience - or is it? The answers lie within.
We quickly learn to love Samuel Gerson, a fine young Jewish student, baseball player, and sheltered son who soon after story's start meets Dmitri Zilber, a recently immigrated Russian Jew who soon makes it apparent by his obsession with Russian literature that he is the sensualist of the title. `I say what I feel, when I feel it, and do what I like when I like it.' The two lads become the brunt of the older sadistic gym coach Mr. Stephanopoulos Samuel is acquiescent and Dmitri is confrontive, unafraid to face the consequences of his easily stated feelings. The two lads become fast friends, face fights with one Jeremy Goldstein, share the problems Samuel has with his first experience with love with Dmitri's sister Yelizaveta (who happens to be a bit loose and has a simultaneous affair with Goldstein), and when Dmitri is faced with Samuel's dilemma he is stubbornly honest he is loyal to his friends, even though honestly expressing all emotions includes freely expressing one's rage, and that can only lead to violence. The boys become involved with drugs - Samuel tastes, Dmitri abstains but is caught up in the complexities of the youth obsession with drugs.
Woven through this exploration of life in Baltimore, Maryland at the turning point are stories of each of the boy's grandparents - Samuel's grandfather was incarcerated in a Hungarian concentration camp in WW II while Dmitri's grandfather was sent to a gulag in Russia - the differences in class distinction the boys encounter, a family death by suicide, and Dmitri's incarceration for breaking and entering as he refuses to be anything less than honest about his and his friends' involvement with fighting and drugs. In the end Daniel Torday invites us to question our culture - how a true sensualist can survive in a society that does not share the same innate honesty. The manner in which he poses these questions is his extraordinarily fine-tuned decision to place his story in the microcosm of a near claustrophobic Jewish community in Baltimore, which happens to have been the home of some of America's greatest writers and thinkers such as HL Mencken, Edgar Allen Poe, etc.
Offering a small example of Torday's mastery of the language, in a discussion of Russian writers, Dmitri states (in his well-written Russian influenced English dialect), ` What is so great? All is great! As with Dmitri Karamazov, these men do as they feel when they feel, and they feel very much. They are sensualists. Today people hide feelings - if they are angry, if they are depressed, they want to talk to a psychiatrist so they don't show feelings. They get in fight in school. School send them to therapist. But why shouldn't we feel all times? What man would not want to act as he feel?' Welcome to Daniel Torday. He is a gifted writer and a powerful humanist. Grady Harp, May 12
Only one character is fleshed out and yet remains a mystery (which works), but the other protagonists, we don't really get to know. The allusions to Dostoevsky needed extension and more richness.
A light, pleasant novella, probably best if you're someone who is familiar with the community in which it takes place.
I am very impressed by Daniel Torday's writing talent. As a relatively young man, he possesses the sensitivity of someone with long life experience and the ability to convey it to the reader.
My son had this book as equipped reading for his 11th grade English class. I read along and must say I read in one sitting. This book really makes you think. I highly recommend
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