Kirjahaku

Daniel Kaplan is a renowned rabbi and a well-known leader of his community. One morning, an Episcopal priest arrives at his door. That priest is the rabbi's son, but the rabbi had no idea that he had fathered a son years before. In a different time, in a different life, twenty-five years before that fateful morning, Daniel Kaplan had loved a woman. They were in the Navy together and this love of his life, his fianc e, married another man without telling him. She also didn't tell him that she was carrying his son. Over those twenty-five years, Daniel Kaplan quietly remained in love with this woman and lived his life. His life became one of tangled emotions. He became an intelligence officer and became involved in the surreal world of covert activities. Daniel then became a rabbi, a naval chaplain, and finally the head of a major synagogue in Brooklyn. Married with a family of his own, he is loved and trusted by his community. How Daniel copes with this astonishing news is intermingled with memories of war and a spy drama in his life, as well as visits from the spirits of the Patriarchs. Daniels troubles become his strengths in this remarkable love story that pits old emotions against new loves and the families that he loves.

It is the spring of 1977 and Elvis Presley is dying. But he does not want to die. He just wants the pain to go away. To whom can he reach out to? Not his fianc e. Not his Memphis Mafia. Certainly not to Colonel Tom Parker, his manager.Why this pain? How is it that he can explain it to no one? Who can actually help him? He turns to his Rabbi for help Elvis Presley is desperate to leave show business and just be a normal person. Unfortunately for him, he is an immense star and cannot just disappear into the ether of society. But what if he could? Better yet, what if he actualizes it and lives to be an old man? "My Conversations with the King" (approximately 77,000 words), my second novel, tells the story of an unhappy Elvis who with the help of a Rabbi from his childhood, disappears into a world so ordinary that he is never found. That is, up until a chance encounter with his next-door neighbor who is a journalist. This neighbor, Stanley, figures out that he is living next to the long presumed dead Elvis Presley. This is the scoop of a lifetime. But not quite yet In exchange for his silence, Elvis agrees to tell Stanley the whole story of how he did not "die", to be told only after his death. In this process a great friendship evolves. So starts a long series of conversations between the two. These talks reveal the secrets of why Elvis ran away, how he did it and how he maintained his privacy in plain sight all these years.

It is the spring of 1977 and Elvis Presley is dying. But he does not want to die. He just wants the pain to go away. To whom can he reach out to? Not his fianc e. Not his Memphis Mafia. Certainly not to Colonel Tom Parker, his manager.Why this pain? How is it that he can explain it to no one? Who can actually help him? He turns to his Rabbi for help Elvis Presley is desperate to leave show business and just be a normal person. Unfortunately for him, he is an immense star and cannot just disappear into the ether of society. But what if he could? Better yet, what if he actualizes it and lives to be an old man? "Conversations with the King" (approximately 77,000 words), my second novel, tells the story of an unhappy Elvis who with the help of a Rabbi from his childhood, disappears into a world so ordinary that he is never found. That is, up until a chance encounter with his next-door neighbor who is a journalist. This neighbor, Stanley, figures out that he is living next to the long presumed dead Elvis Presley. This is the scoop of a lifetime. But not quite yet In exchange for his silence, Elvis agrees to tell Stanley the whole story of how he did not "die", to be told only after his death. In this process a great friendship evolves. So starts a long series of conversations between the two. These talks reveal the secrets of why Elvis ran away, how he did it and how he maintained his privacy in plain sight all these years.