In My Father's Pastures

Plot

"This is a different heaven, Alfred could not help thinking. It was this impression which had accompanied him in his sleep the night before; with it he had awakened in the morning. He had taken his first evening walk in Dobropolia with old Yankel that evening. They had followed a soft, smoothly trodden path which passed Pessa's vegetable garden, the smithy, the wheelright's shop, the stables, the wagon shed and then, rising somewhat highter, the barns, the fragrant hay ricks, the meadows and the powed fields of corn." And so begins this novel.

Jews --Fiction.
Form/Genre: Jewish fiction.


Dr. Soma Morgenstern, who had a distinguished career in Central Europe, has been an American citizen for many years. He is the author of a trilogy of novels: The Son of the Lost Son, In My Father’s Pastures, and The Testament of the Lost Son – a trilogy certain to grow in literary stature and significance in the years to come.

The third book (Testament of Lost Son) in the trilogy Sparks in the Abyss .In this novel, the world of Eastern Europe is reflected in little Dobropolia with its Christians and Jews. Again we meet in this novel the old, beloved, irrepresible Yankel Christiampoler, Pessa with the red hair and warrisome disposition, Uncle Velvel with his mixture of piety and wordly wisdom, Uncle Stefan the European intellectual, and Donja, the beautiful peasant girl. In addition to these old acquaintances, we find several new ones: The lovable old priest whose religion is love and the young ecclesiastic whose religion is power; the old civil servant; the charming luftmensch; and the clever lawyer.Translated from the German manuscript.