Author Description

A Biblical story – so well-known and heard so many times. Then why read it yet again? To answer this, we should go back to the time when people crowded ancient theaters in search of catharsis – a purification from the emotions of pity and fear stirred by the fictional occurrences on stage. The author uses this powerful tool to help us break free from contemporary narrow-minded individualism, plunging us into the realm of the experiences, apprehensions, joys and uncertainties that we all share. It is not about the story. Everybody knows how it ends – except for the protagonists. It is about staying with the characters each step of their way, sharing their passions, fears, anger, humiliations, moments of sheer ecstasy, and everything else they have to offer. And what they have to offer hits every person’s core ideas and values. It goads us into asking the big questions instead of fretting over the petty things we so often focus on. The story is built on a tangle of conflicts: antagonism between siblings, discord between parents and children, strife between nations, and, finally, rivalry between a woman and God. The author sheds special light on family drama, using father/daughter, father/son and mother/son conflicts to portray strong and dominant characters. These family conflicts are well-knitted into the unobtrusive but omnipresent background story of a clash between the oppressor and the oppressed chosen people, of their plight and revenge. Yet another conflict arises from a love triangle formed by the nazirite and the two physically, emotionally and morally opposed sisters. This conflict oscillates between love and hate, highlighting the story of attraction and loathing between different ethnic and social groups. Among all these conflicts, there is one that is strikingly missing – a power struggle between male and female characters. The novel is titled The Nazirite to put stress on the role the title character was born to play rather than on his