In this moving and emotional debut novel, GUESTHOUSE FOR GANESHA, Judith Teitelman takes us on a lyrical journey with her poetic writing style and her spiritual awareness.  We are introduced to Esther, the center character of the story, and we immediately learn two elements that fill this novel; Esther’s connection to the Revered Hindu Diety, Ganesha, and Esther’s need to keep traveling across the European continent over a 22 year period as she deals with her torment.  It is both a personal torment caused by love, and her world descending in torment caused by the outbreak of war in 1939.  

In the extraordinary imagination of the Author a link is made between the beauty of Hindu and Jewish beliefs.  The Hindu Diety Ganesha brings new beginnings, wisdom, obstacles to learn from and obstacles to be removed.  In addition, Teitelmam tells the reader on an introduction page to the novel that “Bet” is the first letter of the Old Testament, known to Jews as the Torah.  She explains that it “denotes a house …….the created world is meant to house the spiritual within”.  Thus, a Guesthouse.  

In the podcast conversation you will hear how this is a novel to savor, to reflect on, and to enjoy a reading journey full of surprises and revelations. 

To Contact the Author, Judith Teitelman, email, [email protected]

For more information go to her website:   www.GuesthouseforGanesha.com