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The Mathematician's Shiva: A Novel
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The Mathematicians Shiva A Novel Stuart Rojstaczer The Mathematicians Shiva A Novel Stuart Rojstaczer on FREE shipping on qualifying offers WINNER OF THE 2014 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DEBUT FICTION For readers of This Is Where I Leave You and Everything Is Illuminated The Mathematicians Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer Goodreads review the mathematician s shiva When I was a young child reading elementaryage I suddenly determined I detested literary fiction and would never again try to read any I am ashamed to say this unwarranted conclusion was based on a single book John Steinbeck s THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT which I found unbearably depressing The Mathematicians Shiva A Novel by Stuart Rojstaczer Most Helpful Customer Reviews Years later the mathematicians who gather to sit Shiva are a crazy lot who converse in a slapstick comic style Their time together monitored and limited by Sasha’s rules is a mixture of sadness speculation careful and not so careful questions and just plain schmoozing back and forth The Mathematicians Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer Spanning decades and continents from a crowded living room in Madison Wisconsin to the windswept beach on the Barents Sea where a young Rachela had her first mathematical breakthrough The Mathematician’s Shiva is an unexpectedly moving and uproariously funny novel that captures humanity’s drive not just to survive but to achieve the impossible The Mathematicians Shiva A Novel Paperback Watermark As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth The Mathematician’s Shiva will delight and move you” –Steven Strogatz author of The Joy of x “Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit style and empathy and The Mathematicians Shiva is a bighearted rollickingly funny novel thats impossible to put down A tremendous debut” Mathematicians Shiva Stuart Rojstaczer Trade Paperback “Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit style and empathy and The Mathematicians Shiva is a bighearted rollickingly funny novel thats impossible to put down A tremendous debut” A tremendous debut” Download The Mathematicians Shiva A Novel SoftArchive Spanning decades and continents from a crowded living room in Madison Wisconsin to the windswept beach on the Barents Sea where a young Rachela had her first mathematical breakthrough The Mathematicians Shiva is an unexpectedly moving and uproariously funny novel that captures humanitys drive not just to survive but to achieve the impossible THE MATHEMATICIANS SHIVA Kirkus Reviews KIRKUS REVIEW Following the death of his eccentric mother the famous mathematician Rachela Karnokovitch a meteorologist must deal with a flock of her colleagues desperate to lay their hands on her rumored masterpiece As we learn in excerpts from her unpublished memoir Rachela was a Polish native who discovered the The Mathematicians Shiva Summary and Reviews Reviews The narrative lurches forward as it moves between these different perspectives and tones The novels bulk is taken up by the machinations of the mathematicians at Rachelas Shiva This part feels occasionally stilted especially since the scholars are often painted as caricatures brilliant minds who are lacking in social skills The Mathematicians Shiva Jewish Book Council Penguin Books 2014 384 Pages 1600 ISBN 9780143126317 When her son Sasha who narrates the novel sits shiva with his father uncle and cousin surprising things happen Hordes of mathematician friends and enemies of Rachela come to pay their respects Though some are genuinely bereaved others are hoping to find any
