Daniel E. Doctor Travel

Author: Daniel Safir Classification: Novel Publisher: Kalemat Dubai Cover type: Hardcover Number of pages: 458 Year of publication: 2022 Synopsis of the novel: The American writer "E. L. Doctorow" (1931-2015) relied in his novel "The Book of Daniel," published in 1971, on the famous case in which the married couple "Julius" and "Ethel Rosenberg" were accused of espionage for the Soviet Union in 1951, which ended with their execution after two years. In this novel, we follow the events of the accusation and trial through the eyes of "Daniel," the eldest son of the protagonists "Paul" and "Ruth," and see the impact of these events on his life and his sister "Susan," who accompanies them for the rest of their lives. The lives of the parents, and the little ones afterward, are shattered... "The matter concerns only them. This feeling of orphanhood that erases everything else, that separates them from everyone else, and that will continue forever no matter how much he tries to deny it." "Doctorow" also provides an analysis of American society's fear of communism and its attempt to eliminate all its forms before it spreads. The novel, which critics classified as a "semi-historical work," was turned into a film titled "Daniel" in 1983.