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Ariëlla Kornmehl - A Silent MotherIn A Silent Mother Ariëlla Kornmehl describes people who are prepared to move mountainsfor love or an ideal but who, because it all proves too difficult or they are too weak, resortto other means to achieve their goals; a ruse, a white lie, a half-truth or a great selfdeception.And if, in this manner, they achieve what they want; is the truth then a disasteror the deception a blessing? Ariëlla Kornmehl describes these issues in such a way that anysimple yes or no falls too short, is too simplistic, crude or inadequate.Loenia is called back to her native city of St Petersburg on her thirty-first birthday; it issomewhere that she hasn’t been since her marriage in the Netherlands. Her father is in a badway. Breaking a longstanding agreement with his spouse he tells Loenia that he has neverknown for sure whether he really is her father. Maybe she would like to raise the issue withher mother, woman to woman? Loenia is speechless, her mother bewildered. How greatmust the silence be around and about someone before it becomes unbearable?Rights sold to:Germany, C.H. Beck‘Nothing is being taken for granted in Ariëlla Kornmehls world. Her third and best novel ASilent Mother shows how good that works with a story that has all the ingredients for amelodrama.’ – de Volkskrant‘Kornmehl is a talent. It is a pity she hasn’t had much exposure.’ – Scholieren.comAuthor: Ariëlla KornmehlAuthor: Ariëlla KornmehlTitle: A Silent Mother (fiction)Title: The Goldwasser Family (fiction)Original title: Een stille moederOriginal title: De familie GoldwasserPublished: 2009 Published: 2001Size: 208 pages / 53.000 wordsSize: 128 pages / 23.000 wordsAriëlla Kornmehl – The Goldwasser FamilyAn opera based on this debut will premiere in 2012. The premiere is in Vancouver. Theopera will also be played at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.The youngest daughter of the traditional Jewish Goldwasser family meets her great lovecalled Paul. Despite his age – he is older than she is – and the fact that he is not Jewish, theydecide to live together. Father Goldwasser doesn’t approve and refuses his daughter accessto her elderly home. The beloved daughter is disowned and almost the entire family followshis disapproval.If Paul dies unexpectedly, she loses the one for whom she gave it all up. Is there a way backinto the family or does she has to cope with a double loss all by herself?A compelling story about important choices which many young people with a strict religiousbackground have to make.‘Ariëlla Kornmehl knows how to give loneliness and yearning for love convincing form.' – de Volkskrant‘It is an easy prediction, but I am willing to make it: The Goldwasser Family is the start of a promising oeuvre.’ –Recensieweb.nl