Reseña del libro "The Ring (en Inglés)"
Set against a backdrop of anti-semitism, bloody pogroms, the carnage of World War 1, and the Russian Revolution of 1917, is the story of Abraham Worbachik, a wealthy, educated and prominent Russian Jew from Odessa, decorated on the Eastern Front for valor and heroism, an artillery officer, falsely imprisoned in a Russian POW camp, his harrowing escape, returning to his grand Odessa estate, now in ruins, finding his family murdered. After taking revenge on the murderers, is hunted by the Army as a deserter and the Bolshevik police as a murderer. Abraham flees his beloved homeland, escapes to Turkey, where his new born child, Esther is kidnapped. His world in chaos, no longer wealthy or from an elite class, he is assisted in his search for Esther, by a Muslim police chief, a brother of a soldier Abraham saved in battle. Ransom is paid for his daughters release with a 2500 year old family heirloom, a precious ring. The book is a travel log, not only geographical but spiritual, a tale of moving from an object of history to a subject of history. From peace to war, wealth to poverty, privilege to need, his life a testament to love and gratitude.
