{"id":4980,"date":"2021-07-06T10:17:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T10:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.michalgovrin.com\/publications\/hold-on-to-the-sun-true-stories-and-legends\/"},"modified":"2023-03-17T12:59:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T12:59:24","slug":"hold-on-to-the-sun-true-stories-and-legends","status":"publish","type":"publications","link":"https:\/\/michalgovrin.com\/en\/publications\/hold-on-to-the-sun-true-stories-and-legends\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold On to the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A richly varied collection of short stories, legends, a novella, and essays. In this portrait of the artist as a young woman, Michal Govrin offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives. Peopled by characters mysterious and real, each story is a search for meaning in a post-Shoah world. Reminiscent of W.G. Sebald, the characters \u2013 irrationally and with great humanity \u2013 find reasons to hope in a world that offers few. The essays describe Govrin\u2019s visits to Poland as a young woman, where her mother survived a death camp, but lost her first husband and her eight-year-old son, Govrin\u2019s half-brother. Govrin\u2019s haunting stories capture the depths of denial and the exuberance of youth: through a succession of cracks in reality, naked being is exposed. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stories from the book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-1a6a1e72-ae3a-402d-9666-c96ef0fbc451\" href=\"https:\/\/new.michalgovrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hold-on-to-the-sun.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hold On to the Sun<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/new.michalgovrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hold-on-to-the-sun.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-1a6a1e72-ae3a-402d-9666-c96ef0fbc451\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-a5b3a55b-e1be-47d5-bedf-9ef0e17e53d4\" href=\"https:\/\/new.michalgovrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/between-two-and-four.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Between Two and Four<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/new.michalgovrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/between-two-and-four.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-a5b3a55b-e1be-47d5-bedf-9ef0e17e53d4\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Michal Govrin: Hold on to the Sun\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2YJKxvM-Idc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A lecture at the Library of Congress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4992,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[102,101],"tags":[114,116,107],"class_list":["post-4980","publications","type-publications","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature-en","category-novels-en","tag-anti-victimhood","tag-eros","tag-generations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michalgovrin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/4980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michalgovrin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michalgovrin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publications"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michalgovrin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michalgovrin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michalgovrin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michalgovrin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}