Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Jack Rosenblum: Self described as "five foot three and a half of sheer tenacity", Jack is the narrator of this story. A German immigrant to England during the second World War, Jack wants nothing more than to assimilate to the English way of life.
• Sadie Rosenblum: Sadie, Jack's wife, mourns her life 'before' throughout this book. Before the war, before immigrating to London, before losing her parents and brother. Sadie is a baker and has her mother's book of german recipes which include those 'good for a broken heart', those for 'rainy days' and those for remembering.
• Curtis: Curtis befriends Jack when the Rosenblums arrive in Dorset. He labors beside his friend to create Jack's golf course.
• William Waegbert: Add a description of this character.
• Bobby Jones
• Elizabeth
• Edgar Herzfeld
• Emil
• Mutti
• Mr Austen
• Papa
• Mrs Hinton
• Jack
• Wilson
• Mister Rose-in-bloom
• Freida
• Freddie
• Lavender
• Tom Morris
• Betjeman
• Symonds
• Lady Waegbert
• Henry Poole
• Mike
• Matt
• Hardy
• Max

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• “Perhaps he liked golf because it had rules -within those little laws lay a logical order. If you played the game and obeyed the rules then win or lose you were safe. The game contained and held you safely within its structures.”

• “Life, that is the most precious thing! It takes the place of death. Wedding has precedent over funeral. I choose joy over this pointless sorrow.”

  Jack

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• Perhaps he liked golf because it had rules—within those little laws lay a logical order. If you played the game and obeyed the rules, then win or lose you were safe. The game contained and held you safely within its structures.

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• like a series of women, like a paper-doll chain of Sadies, each connected by her fingertips to the next, but every one separate. There was the girl Sadie, then the Sadie before the war and the Sadie who escaped. Then the Sadie in London, and now this strange plump, middle-aged woman, who felt indistinct, like she was not really here at all.

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• It was sweet and perfectly moist with a hint of lemon but, as her mouth filled with deliciousness, each woman was overwhelmed with sadness. Each tasted Sadie’s memories, her loss and unhappiness and whilst they ate, Sadie was, for once, not alone in her sorrow.

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• Sadie thought of her existence purely in these terms of before and after but this left no room for right now.

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• Sadie, like her mother and grandmother before her, had baked a Baumtorte whenever she needed to remember.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• London
• England
• Dorset
• Berlin
• Cambridge
• Augusta
• Harrods
• America
• Scotland
• Piddle Hall
• Britain

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Natasha Solomons (Author)

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• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.6

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary