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The Syringa Tree: A Novel
Christian Century, Oct 31, 2006
The Syringa Tree: A Novel. By Pamela Gien. Random House, 272 pp., $24.95.
The Syringa Tree began as a one-woman Broadway play, which won the 2001 Obie Award, and then flowered into a beautifully written novel. Most of Gien's largely autobiographical story is set in apartheid South Africa, told from the perspective of Elizabeth, the daughter of English-speaking parents whose father is a partly Jewish doctor and whose mother is melancholy. The family bonds with their black servants like family, and even harbors the infant daughter of Elizabeth's nanny--an illegal act that endangers their own safety. Elizabeth escaped her troubled homeland as a young adult, but her father aptly told her, "Every place is part of you ... and you're part of every place." Symphony-like, The Syringa Tree is written in four parts, beginning with a long, slow-paced movement. But it climaxes with a heartrending yet hopeful ending after the dissolution of apartheid rule.
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