BOOKS 2024 #חוט הלב

Max Nordau, born in Hungary who lived most of his days in Paris, was a popular doctor and writer in the years before the First World War. He wrote 'Heart Thread' - originally called 'Practice' - for his only home Maxa, a talented girl who was born to him when he was 50 years old. At the root of the legends in the book is a life of human distress (poverty, longing for a child, unrequited love for an animal, difficulty in making peace between enemies), but the solution to the difficulties is often supernatural