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Review by Edge1962 -- Gates to Tangier by Mois Benarroch
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2 out of 4 stars
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I have just finished reading the book Gates to Tangier by Mois Benarroch an interesting story about a Jewish family that becomes aware of an unknown sibling when reading the will of their recently deceased father. The conditions of the will are that they try to make contact with their sibling in order to receive their inheritance. The family then travels in an attempt to fulfill the last wishes of their father and at the same time we are treated to insights of each of the children and their feelings of loss in life.
The story does have an interesting plot and some surprising and unseen twists but bogs down a bit due to a lot of Jewish terms and expressions that are foreign to most readers. Due to that I can only rate the book 2 out of 4 stars.
This book would be interesting to a Jewish audience because of the many references to Jewish history and living. It is also a sort of tragic romance story which readers who enjoy exploring the complexities of human emotions and psychology might enjoy. There is an in-depth analysis of the thinking of the main characters which is interesting and insightful. Also, there are some mystical conversations at the beginnings of sections that intrigue and help the reader to get into the minds of the proponents.
On the other hand, I think that the rank and file reader would not enjoy the book and might even have trouble finishing it. As I mentioned, it has an interesting and captivating plot, but the depth of character development and Semitic references overwhelms any fire the story can generate.
There are a few errors in the text which I would like to point out to the author. For instance, there are many hyphenated words in the text. This could be due to the device I read the story on and the device the author wrote on. An example is found on page 68 which on my tablet reads “The airport was sm-aller”. That would still be an incorrectly hyphenated word whatever the margin width. Also, I encountered a few misspelt words on pages 66 and 82. On page 66 one paragraph says someone “through a grenade” (should be “threw”) and later “almost gotten use to his chants” (should be “used”). On page 82 there is a line that states in part, “may not that freely” that I think should read “maybe not that freely”.
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2 out of 4 stars
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I have just finished reading the book Gates to Tangier by Mois Benarroch an interesting story about a Jewish family that becomes aware of an unknown sibling when reading the will of their recently deceased father. The conditions of the will are that they try to make contact with their sibling in order to receive their inheritance. The family then travels in an attempt to fulfill the last wishes of their father and at the same time we are treated to insights of each of the children and their feelings of loss in life.
The story does have an interesting plot and some surprising and unseen twists but bogs down a bit due to a lot of Jewish terms and expressions that are foreign to most readers. Due to that I can only rate the book 2 out of 4 stars.
This book would be interesting to a Jewish audience because of the many references to Jewish history and living. It is also a sort of tragic romance story which readers who enjoy exploring the complexities of human emotions and psychology might enjoy. There is an in-depth analysis of the thinking of the main characters which is interesting and insightful. Also, there are some mystical conversations at the beginnings of sections that intrigue and help the reader to get into the minds of the proponents.
On the other hand, I think that the rank and file reader would not enjoy the book and might even have trouble finishing it. As I mentioned, it has an interesting and captivating plot, but the depth of character development and Semitic references overwhelms any fire the story can generate.
There are a few errors in the text which I would like to point out to the author. For instance, there are many hyphenated words in the text. This could be due to the device I read the story on and the device the author wrote on. An example is found on page 68 which on my tablet reads “The airport was sm-aller”. That would still be an incorrectly hyphenated word whatever the margin width. Also, I encountered a few misspelt words on pages 66 and 82. On page 66 one paragraph says someone “through a grenade” (should be “threw”) and later “almost gotten use to his chants” (should be “used”). On page 82 there is a line that states in part, “may not that freely” that I think should read “maybe not that freely”.
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