Our next CBS book club will be on November 15. We will be joining a group from the JFGI and Partnershiptogether Western Galilee.
We will be reading: The Book of Fathers by Miklos Vamos.
On Novemver 15 at 11:45 AM we will be joining others in Indianapolis to discuss the book and then we will meet with the author virtually at 1:00 PM with the Partnershiptogether Western Gallilee group from the US, Hungary and Israel.
Please RSVP to Sharon Karp at skarp@iu.edu for links to the virtual meetings on Novemver 15.
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When in 1705 Kornell Csillag’s grandfather returns destitute to his native Hungary from exile, he happens across a gold fob-watch gleaming in the mud. The shipwrecked fortunes of the Csillag family suddenly take a new and marvelous turn. The golden watch brings an unexpected gift to the future generations of firstborn sons: clairvoyance. Passed down from father to son, this gift offers the ability to look into the future or back into history–for some it is considered a blessing, for others a curse. No matter the outcome, each generation records its astonishing, vivid, and revelatory visions into a battered journal that becomes known as The Book of Fathers. For three hundred years the Csillag family line meanders unbroken across Hungary’s rivers and vineyards, through a land overrun by wolves and bandits, scarred by plague and massacre, and brutalized by despots. Impetuous, tenderhearted, and shrewd, the Csillags give birth to scholars and gamblers, artists and entrepreneurs. Led astray by unruly passions, they marry frigid French noblewomen and thieving alehouse whores. They change their name and their religion, and change them back. They wander from home but always return, and through it all The Book of Fathers bears witness to holocaust and wedding feast alike.