Harrys Choice AS-IS

"Some people never learn, and some find out too late"that there are dark forces buried inside us that can rage like a hurricane through our hearts and minds, though more often they move with ingenious subtlety and cunning, luring us away from our true selves.... In a way I could never understand, it was the menorah that brought me back to my own people, to my land, to everything that I guess lay buried there in my heart." This is the story of Harry Berger, a streetwise kid from the slums who wants to be a magician"and what happens to him when he encounters the magic of Jerusalem. Enter Goldberg, Jerusalem private eye and former Chicago cop.. .Schwan, ex-Nazi hypnotist... Father Bellini, who runs Holy Land Health Foods... and lonely, aging Max Zlotkin. Harry's guardian angel. In his beautifully crafted first novel, author Moshe Hoffman has given us a multi-layered tale of people confronting their past and their future, of adventure and suspense, of struggle and triumph, of the search for an ancient menorah"and of the search for self. When you finish this book, you'll want to read it over again... right away.