Liv's Secrets
Liv's Secrets is a passionate saga of one fictional South African Jewish family, the Weiszs, immigrants from Eastern Europe. One among a great wave of Jewish immigrants in the latter part of the 19th century, washing up mainly in America, but a wavelet of Lithuanian Jews on South Africa's shores.
Historical figures interact with the fictional cast amid the background of South Africa's racial turmoil and apartheid's authoritarian iron fist. Not least of the characters is South Africa itself. Landscape of astonishing beauty and nature's abundant flora and fauna.
Decades pass, generations of Weisz family members play out the drama-romance, first loves, lust, betrayal, true love, despair and elation, cruelty and evil, hope and fulfilment. In the background the chilling reality of World Wars and escalating racial tensions within South Africa that culminate in the bloody Sharpeville Massacre, March 1960, and its aftermath.
From 1960, the saga pivots on the third generation, embodied by Liv Weisz. Five years earlier, a recent divorcee, passionate and headstrong, she heeds the call to become part of the resistance to the authoritarian White apartheid government. And pays an unimaginable price with resounding consequences for many characters, as the country itself undergoes seismic, racially evoked challenges.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Janet Levine
"LIV'S SECRETS" NOMINATED FOR 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
Her latest novel, LIV'S SECRETS, is a Jewish family historical saga set in South Africa between the years 1880s-1960. The narrative is driven by the power of two burgeoning forces--the dangerous yet unstoppable life and loves of Liv Weisz, and hugely important historical events. Liv, a true daughter of South Africa, undertakes her own journey of self-identity amid all the turbulence. Will be available from Armin Lear Press in Spring 2023,
Her 2022 book READING MATTERS: HOW LITERATURE INFLUENCES LIFE by Janet Levine from Armin Lear Press available at bookstores on line and in store worldwide.
More about this author at JanetLevine.com
