Bashert

a novel

by Herb Freed

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Pub Date Feb 14 2017 | Archive Date May 14 2018

Description

It was a chance meeting at a film industry event. From the moment Marion hears Dan's voice, she knows - and so does he. It's bashert. But when did the course of true love ever run smooth? Dan and Marion are soon partners in business as well as life, traveling the world to create movies. He directs, she writes, and life becomes an amazing adventure - until Cancun. There, among the ruins of a Mayan civilization, Marion has an eerie premonition that could change everything. Herb Free immerses us in the heady intoxication and thunderous love of what it really means to be bashert.

Advance Praise

“How does one best describe BASHERT, this exciting, exhilarating, and captivating novel, passionate yet serene, spell-binding yet sober, dream-like yet rooted in reality, cresting in sublime euphoria yet submerged in dolor and sadness, interweaving smiles and laughter with tears, intensive longing with frightful absence, resonating and pulsating with voices that touch the soul and reverberate in the heart, suffused with humor, sarcasm, and blasphemous irony, and interspersed with echoes of Biblical, Talmudic, and Kabbalistic sources--all woven together to create a haunting and fascinating mosaic tale of two lovers intertwined in a unity of duality, a divine double twinned in heart and soul. BASHERT will ‘dance you to the end of time.’" —Shalom M. Paul, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University

“An exciting journey that is beautiful … hopeful … terrifying and exhilarating. A voyage well worth taking… I loved it.”

—Robert Kovacik

Anchor, NBC News, Los Angeles

“A wonderful work of passion and courage. An extraordinary adventure, ennobling in its awareness of all that is love, loss and life.” — Janice Lynde, author, Ten Minutes to the Audition

“How does one best describe BASHERT, this exciting, exhilarating, and captivating novel, passionate yet serene, spell-binding yet sober, dream-like yet rooted in reality, cresting in sublime...