The Clay Urn

The Clay Urn​ is a book that carefully and authentically navigates the intricate spaces and places where love thrives during and post wartime. Between carnage and devastation there is humanity, always. This novella reminds us of all the ways we can love despite all the ways that our circumstances try to extinguish us. At the core of it, ​The Clay Urn​ is a love story – a multilayered, multi character romance even, between two people; between a woman and her passion; between a people and their land. Rabinowitz, through his deeply lyrical prose, reminds us that not all things are destroyed during war time and that some can never be, like love between two people, like the desire to create something beyond our imagination, something more beautiful than our history, than our present. One of the most intriguing aspects of the book is how deeply steeped the characters' memory and love are in the tradition of war, which their country is born of. ​The Clay Urn​...