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For Two Thousand Years

By: Mihail Sebastian, Philip Oceallaigh
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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This literary masterpiece revives the ideological debates of the interwar period through the journal of a Romanian Jewish student caught between anti-Semitism and Zionism. Although he endures persistent threats just to attend lectures, he feels disconnected from his Jewish peers and questions whether their activism will be worth the cost. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and conversing with revolutionaries, zealots, and libertines, he remains isolated, even from the women he loves. From Bucharest to Paris, he strives to make peace with himself in an increasingly hostile world.

For Two Thousand Years echoes Mihail Sebastian's struggles as the rise of fascism ended his career and turned his friends and colleagues against him. Born of the violence of relentless anti-Semitism, his searching, self-derisive work captures a defining moment in history and lights the way for generations to come - a prescient, heart-wrenching chronicle of resilience and despair, resistance and acceptance.

©1934 Mihail Sebastian; translation copyright 2016 by Philip Ó Ceallaigh (P)2017 Tantor
Coming of Age Fiction Historical Fiction Jewish Literary Fiction
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"His prose is like something Chekov might have written - the same modesty, candor, and subtleness of observation." (Arthur Miller)

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