Rumors and Stones: A Journey

by Wayne Karlin

Book Overview

"In the summer of 1993 I began a self-imposed journey into the blurred space between memory, story, and reality when I rented a car from Warsaw Avis and drove to the village in Poland in which my mother had lived before immigrating to the United States." So begins Wayne Karlin's Rumors and Stones, the haunting narrative of a writer's journey into his family's past in the small Polish town of Kolno whose 2,000 Jewish inhabitants were machinegunned in ditches in 1941. Karlin explores the tension in the role of the storyteller as a witness and keeper but also as shaper; it is a journey in space that becomes a journey into the past and into the truth that can only be found in the imagination; it is a journey into Karlin's own origins as a veteran of the Vietnam war and as a writer compelled in his work to always come back to that conflict.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188068442X
• ISBN13: 9781880684429
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Curbstone Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

REVIEW QUOTES

"Karlin's deft melding of disparate narratives will stand as a unique and valuable addition to the literature of the Holocaust." --Washington Post Book World"A haunting meditation." --Publishers Weekly"For the sake of humanity, we need to read Wayne Karlin on war and peace. Studying the holocaust of his immediate forebears and the Viet Nam/American War of his own experience, he has written a life-saving book." --Maxine Hong Kingston"A gem of a book burnished with poetic language and images." --Baltimore Jewish Times