People are interested in love stories since love is an emotion that encompasses the world, even the universe, and in many ways fires up other feelings.
Pomegranate Seeds was honored in 2005 as a runner-up in the \'The National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Culture.\' Nadia lives with her husband, and they have two sons and two grandkids..
She has published two books: Jewish Tales from Eastern Europe (Jason Aronson, 1999) and Pomegranate Seeds - Latin American Jewish Tales (University of New Mexico Press, 2005).
Nadia has lectured on Jewish culture as well as 19th century European literature. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley.
About author(s): Nadia Grosser Nagarajan was born in Czechoslovakia and educated in Israel and the United Sates where she received a Ph.
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The reader may enjoy these stories and remember them, hopefully even after some time has passed.
The book also contains other topics and surprises, dealing with folktales, fantasy, humor, pain, and medical themes, to name just a few.
And so, there are different kinds of love that can be found and noticed.
Even the cat is a lover of her mat as long as the mat serves it well and discards it when the mat becomes useless.
And then there is the standard love of a couple of birds that behave just as a human couple would.
A different love is described in the story Two Hats in which there is a self-centered man who only has his own appearance in mind.
Yet love fights to win but in the end is defeated, which can happen at times when love has a formidable adversary against which it cannot compete.
Elena is one of those stories, although it is a tragic story as well, and love is not victorious.
And finally, it has to be mentioned that some of the stories were created, so to speak, while the author was either falling asleep or even in her dreams.
The author has envisioned and experienced many of the situations described, and has told them the way that they happened, saving their true message without trying to introduce controversial characters or situations that would not benefit the narrative.
Many tales can be considered unusual, dealing with exceptional topics and characters.
The stories deal with personalities, some strong and some weak, the way that humans are created and brought up.
Love can challenge and overcome other sentiments, but it isn\'t always victorious.
People are interested in love stories since love is an emotion that encompasses the world, even the universe, and in many ways fires up other feelings
