A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti – April 8, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
New York City, 1972. Jaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Lucy Gardner, a southerner, newly arrived in the city, are in the first bloom of love when they receive word that Jaryk’s oldest friend has died under mysterious circumstances in a rural village in eastern India.
Traveling there alone to collect his friend’s ashes, Jaryk soon finds himself enmeshed in the chaos of local politics and efforts to stage a play in protest of the government—the same play that he performed as a child in Warsaw as an act of resistance against the Nazis. Torn between survivor’s guilt that he carried for decades and his feelings for Lucy, Jaryk must decide how to honor both the past and the present, and how to accept a happiness he is not sure he deserves.
It is said to be a “dazzling novel-set in the early 1970’s New York and rural India-the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of lasting horrors of WorldWar II, and a searing examination of one man’s search for forgiveness and acceptance”.
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