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Felix Katz is an assimilated Viennese who hates believing Jews. He travels with his daughter to a small Carpathian village in search of help for her emotional illness, only to learn that the healer is an old rabbi. Unable to bear this passionate religiosity, Felix suffers six snowbound months in the village, becoming further alienated from his family, and finally returns to a Vienna plagued by the same anti-Semitism that has poisoned his own heart.
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kimo nestuk
reviewed The Healer on March 12, 2013
The Healer
Strange story that develops almost in a fog of descriptive terms. A lot of what's happening in this book is the sudden expression of emotions in characters - a gripping rage, a sudden stubbornness, a bleak darkness - that isn't followed with much happening. In the story a family travels to a religious Jewish healer in the mountains in search of a cure for their daughter struggling with "mood problems". But this is not a story about their daughter's illness and treatment, but about how the family deals with faith and lack of faith in times of struggle. It feels like it's an extended effort to get into the question of faith vis a vis Jewish assimilated Jews (this family was from Vienna) following the holocaust. The author himself, I believe, is a holocaust survivor.
The best part of this book is that the word coffee is mentioned almost more times than I think of coffee a day!
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