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"On Easter Day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish emigre scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a concert singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and - against all odds, advice, and better judgment - they marry. They vow to raise their offspring beyond time, beyond race, beyond belonging, steeped in song. But their three children, the unwitting subjects of this experiment, must survive America's brutal here and now."
"Jonah, Joseph and Ruth grow up during the early Civil Rights era, come of age in the riot-torn 1960s, and live out their adulthoods through the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, "whose voice could make heads of state repent," pursues a life devoted to his parents' beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, chooses a path of militant activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this far-ranging, multigenerational tale, struggles to remain loyal to both siblings. As a polarized America threatens to tear the family apart, only their deep, shared love of song stands any hope of preserving them."--Jacket.
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African American women singers, Interfaith marriage, Parent and adult child, Racially mixed people, Immigrants, Fiction, Jewish men, Interracial marriage, Singers, Scientists, Musical fiction, Fiction, general, African americans, fiction, Jews, fiction, Fiction, sagas, New York Times reviewed, Mischling, Geschwister, Klassische Musik, Rassismus, Weibliche Schwarze, Ehe, Schwarze Frau, Juden, Interethnische HerkunftPlaces
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Der Klang der Zeit: Roman
2007, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl.
in German
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The Time of Our Singing
2003, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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"In some empty hall, my brother is still singing."
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"Tout commence en 1939, lorsque Delia Daley et David Strom se rencontrent à un concert de Marian Anderson. Peut-on alors imaginer qu'une jeune femme noire épouse un juif allemand fuyant le nazisme? Et pourtant ... Leur passion pour la musique l'emporte sur les conventions et offre à leur amour un sanctuaire de paix où, loin des hurlements du monde et de ses vicissitudes, ils élèvent leurs trois enfants. Chacun d'eux cherche sa voix dans la grande cacophonie américaine, inventant son destin en marge des lieux communs : Jonah embrasse une prometteuse carrière de ténor, Ruth, la cadette, lutte aux côtés des Black Panthers, tandis que Joseph essaye, coûte que coûte, de préserver l'harmonie familiale. Peuplé de personnages d'une humanité rare, 'Le temps où nous chantions' couvre un demi-siècle d'histoire américaine, nous offrant, au passage, des pages inoubliables sur la musique." [Source : 4e de couv.]
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