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Title: The Breaking of Eggs
Author: Jim Powell
Narrator: Charles Armstrong
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-02-16
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
A panoramic debut about love and loss, The Breaking of Eggs announces a major new talent.
Change is in the air in a shabby apartment in the 19th arrondissment in Paris. One unremarkable day Madame Lefèvre invites Feliks to call her Sandrine. As his indomitable landlady's manners have been as unvarying as her dresses for the last 36 years, this feels significant to Feliks. And it is.
As the face of Europe transforms beyond recognition, Feliks' own life teeters on the edge of change. All it takes is one uncharacteristic decision, and suddenly an unstoppable chain of life-changing events is set in motion.
Feliks does not embrace change - in fact it makes him most uncomfortable. But as he's reunited with a brother he hasn't seen since his childhood and comes face to face with the love he let slip through his fingers, Feliks has to face up to the possibility that the convictions he has based his life upon were nothing but smoke and mirrors.
Soon his carefully constructed world is tumbling round his ears, and Feliks wonders: is there such a thing as a second chance for someone like him?
Members Reviews:
The politics of humanity (and the occasional inhumanity of politics)
Feliks Zhukovski, the main character in Jim Powell's The Breaking of Eggs, is an ex-patriot Pole spending his life in Paris when he's not updating his guidebook to sights in Eastern Europe. A one-time Communist who now calls himself a leftist, Zhukovski has seen many of Europe's upheavals beginning with World War II. The latest upheaval is the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communism - events that have left him disheartened because they betray the promise he once saw in the Communist system.
Set in 1991, Zhukovski's life is suddenly as chaotic as the new Europe he sees around him. For starters, an American publishing company is wanting to buy his guidebook. Initially reluctant to part with his guidebook - especially to a capitalist company - Zhukovski starts down a path that will lead through much of Europe's 20th century history and to a much changed Feliks.
On a trip to the United States, Zhukovski makes the decision to sell his guidebook. While in the U.S., Feliks decides to look up his long-lost brother who now lives in Ohio. The two men have not seen each other since the early years of World War II when his older brother ran off to join the Resistance. Though still highly distrustful of Americans, Feliks embraces his new-found family after decades of living alone in Paris. Once set in motion, the momentum of Feliks' life picks up speed and quite a few eggs get broken ... not the least of which is Feliks' once insular life and perceptions.
To say too much of what Feliks encounters would be to spoil the fun of tracing his journeys and discovering his past for the first time. There are moments of humor as well as heart-breaking loss. At the heart of the novel is the story of one man's gradual discovery that the past is not always what it appears, the truth is sometimes subjective, and that making progress (or omlets) requires breaking some eggs.
The Breaking of Eggs is more than just the story of a former Communist coming face to face with some of that system's "grave errors." It's a story that could be written about any ideology that places loyalty to a particular system above being humane to our fellow humans. It could just as easily be about liberal vs. conservative or secular vs.
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Title: The Breaking of Eggs
Author: Jim Powell
Narrator: Charles Armstrong
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-02-16
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
A panoramic debut about love and loss, The Breaking of Eggs announces a major new talent.
Change is in the air in a shabby apartment in the 19th arrondissment in Paris. One unremarkable day Madame Lefèvre invites Feliks to call her Sandrine. As his indomitable landlady's manners have been as unvarying as her dresses for the last 36 years, this feels significant to Feliks. And it is.
As the face of Europe transforms beyond recognition, Feliks' own life teeters on the edge of change. All it takes is one uncharacteristic decision, and suddenly an unstoppable chain of life-changing events is set in motion.
Feliks does not embrace change - in fact it makes him most uncomfortable. But as he's reunited with a brother he hasn't seen since his childhood and comes face to face with the love he let slip through his fingers, Feliks has to face up to the possibility that the convictions he has based his life upon were nothing but smoke and mirrors.
Soon his carefully constructed world is tumbling round his ears, and Feliks wonders: is there such a thing as a second chance for someone like him?
Members Reviews:
The politics of humanity (and the occasional inhumanity of politics)
Feliks Zhukovski, the main character in Jim Powell's The Breaking of Eggs, is an ex-patriot Pole spending his life in Paris when he's not updating his guidebook to sights in Eastern Europe. A one-time Communist who now calls himself a leftist, Zhukovski has seen many of Europe's upheavals beginning with World War II. The latest upheaval is the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communism - events that have left him disheartened because they betray the promise he once saw in the Communist system.
Set in 1991, Zhukovski's life is suddenly as chaotic as the new Europe he sees around him. For starters, an American publishing company is wanting to buy his guidebook. Initially reluctant to part with his guidebook - especially to a capitalist company - Zhukovski starts down a path that will lead through much of Europe's 20th century history and to a much changed Feliks.
On a trip to the United States, Zhukovski makes the decision to sell his guidebook. While in the U.S., Feliks decides to look up his long-lost brother who now lives in Ohio. The two men have not seen each other since the early years of World War II when his older brother ran off to join the Resistance. Though still highly distrustful of Americans, Feliks embraces his new-found family after decades of living alone in Paris. Once set in motion, the momentum of Feliks' life picks up speed and quite a few eggs get broken ... not the least of which is Feliks' once insular life and perceptions.
To say too much of what Feliks encounters would be to spoil the fun of tracing his journeys and discovering his past for the first time. There are moments of humor as well as heart-breaking loss. At the heart of the novel is the story of one man's gradual discovery that the past is not always what it appears, the truth is sometimes subjective, and that making progress (or omlets) requires breaking some eggs.
The Breaking of Eggs is more than just the story of a former Communist coming face to face with some of that system's "grave errors." It's a story that could be written about any ideology that places loyalty to a particular system above being humane to our fellow humans. It could just as easily be about liberal vs. conservative or secular vs.