Praise for
Come Back for Me:
“Writing with a historian’s luminous clarity and a fictionist’s hard-won freedom to imagine the past, Sharon Hart-Green takes the modern Jewish novel to new heights.
Come Back for Me
both captivates and rewards the reader."—Maxim D. Shrayer, author of
Yom Kippur in Amsterdam
“Evocative and heart-wrenchingly beautiful,
Come Back for Me
is a must read for anyone with a moral conscience and a soul." —Leah Kaminsky, winner of the Voss Literary Prize for her debut novel,
The Waiting Room
“
Come Back for Me
is both the lovely coming of age story of a young woman in 1960's Toronto and a darkly shadowed tale of a scarred Jewish family that wends its way from the Nazi occupation of Hungary through Mandate Palestine, England and Israel. Beyond its riveting plot it is a novel about the loss and recovery of love. Sharon Hart-Green writes with great generosity of heart and a searing sense of what it means to be buffeted by history."—Jonathan Wilson
,
author of
A Palestine Affair
“A gripping tale told from a place in the heart that is both broken and alive. Anyone who has ever lost something precious and human will follow Artur on his heartbreaking and hopeful journey."
—Ruchama King Feuerman
,
author of
In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist
Sharon Hart-Green's debut novel COME BACK FOR ME is a gripping story of trauma, loss, and the redemptive power of love set in the aftermath of World War II. It was chosen as the inaugural fiction offering of The New Jewish Press and was released on May 31, 2017.
Sharon received her PhD in Judaic Studies from Brandeis University and has taught Hebrew and Yiddish literature at the University of Toronto. Her first book NOT A SIMPLE STORY (Lexington Books) was a study of the work of Hebrew novelist S. Y. Agnon. Her second book, BRIDGING THE DIVIDE (Syracuse University Press), is a compilation of her translations of the Hebrew poems of Hava Pinhas-Cohen.
In addition, Sharon's short stories, poems, translations, and reviews have appeared in a number of publications, including Midstream, The Jewish Review of Books, and JewishFiction.net.
She is currently at work on a second novel, about the mystical inclinations of a young man in search of love.
