This Magnificent Dappled Sea, David Biro
This Magnificent Dappled Sea, David Biro
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This Magnificent Dappled Sea

Author: David Biro

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 8 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2020

Synopsis

Two strangers—generations and oceans apart—have a chance to save each other in this moving and suspenseful novel about family secrets and the ineffable connections that lead us to one another.In a small Northern Italian village, nine-year-old Luca Taviano catches a stubborn cold and is subsequently diagnosed with leukemia. His only hope for survival is a bone marrow transplant. After an exhaustive search, a match turns up three thousand miles away in the form of a most unlikely donor: Joseph Neiman, a rabbi in Brooklyn, New York, who is suffering from a debilitating crisis of faith. As Luca’s young nurse, Nina Vocelli, risks her career and races against time to help save the spirited redheaded boy, she uncovers terrible secrets from World War II—secrets that reveal how a Catholic child could have Jewish genes.Can inheritance be transcended by accidents of love? That is the question at the heart of This Magnificent Dappled Sea, a novel that challenges the idea of identity and celebrates the ties that bind us together.

About David Biro

David Biro graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia Medical School, and Oxford University. He teaches at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and practices dermatology in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. He is the author of One Hundred Days: My Journey from Doctor to Patient and The Language of Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief. He has also been published in the New York Times, Slate, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and various medical journals. David lives in New York City with his wife and twin boys. For more information, visit www.davidbiro.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephanie

This book is much like an ill made burrito. All the meat and good stuff was up front and only a shell left in the back. The last 100 pages usually are the most interesting, the most intense, but at this point in the book it’s where it fell flat. I was so in love with this story up until then and it’......more

Goodreads review by Greta

Update 10/11/23: This book popped up on my Facebook memories today. I actually still think of it 3 years later. If you haven’t had the chance to read this one yet, I do recommend it! It is heartfelt and was a lovely adventure for me. Are you a perfect match? I was! I was a bone marrow donor for a str......more

Goodreads review by Elissa

I enjoyed this book immensely. I loved seeing how the lives of people from across the world connected and impacted each other. I stayed up most of the night to finish the book.......more

Quotes

“Plenty of heart and compassion. Biro’s ambitious dive into the mysteries of family origins will move readers.” —Publishers Weekly“Physician and author Biro examines the secrets that people carry and how they shape and distort the ways one sees the world. A story of interconnection and the boundaries that too often keep us apart.” —Booklist“This Magnificent Dappled Sea by David Biro is a deftly crafted novel by an author with a genuine flair for originality and the kind of narrative storytelling style that both entertains and provokes thoughtful reflection. The kind of literary work that will linger in the mind and memory long after the book itself has been finished and set back upon the shelf.” —Midwest Book Review

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