{"id":6215,"date":"2020-10-27T16:08:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T22:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=6215"},"modified":"2020-10-27T16:08:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T22:08:59","slug":"the-elixirist-a-novel-by-avraham-azrieli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=6215","title":{"rendered":"The Elixirist: A Novel by Avraham Azrieli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Utterly compelling\u2026 A sweetly exotic tale for young and old alike.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lands of ancient Israel supply the backdrop to Azrieli\u2019s fascinating and deeply intriguing latest, which explores a young man\u2019s path to self-discovery and enlightenment. Determined to win the stunning daughter of the High Priest of Edom, a country to the south-east of Canaan, sixteen-year-old Sall sets on a harrowing journey, leaving his home and city behind. Fraught with deceits, trickeries, and hardships, Sall\u2019s journey takes him from Edom to Jericho and further to Damascus in his search of the mythical elixir of love. Azrieli\u2019s prose has a dreamlike quantity, and the narrative shines with passages of vivid imagery as Sal gains an added dimension of perception from going through relentless sorrows. In Sall, readers find a courageous hero determined to realize his dream despite the circumstances. Azrieli makes the connections among his various characters seem so natural that the whole situation feels utterly realistic: Sall\u2019s relationship with his parents is both convincing and endearing; the bond between Sall and Bozra will just about break the reader\u2019s heart.  Against the backdrop of ancient Israel, Azrieli explores the path to self-searching and spiritual understanding and sheds insight on the power of hardships and miseries in a person\u2019s life and how they shape one\u2019s character. Readers, both young and old, will find themselves turning pages nonstop, wishing this won\u2019t end. Replete with sharp observations, hysterical asides, and vivid depiction, this surreal work is sure to win Azrieli many fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Elixirist: A Novel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Avraham Azrieli<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy now<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pub date September 4, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ASIN B08HKPZC2P<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price $2.98 (USD) Kindle edition, $9.99 Paperback<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Utterly compelling\u2026 A sweetly exotic tale for young and old alike. The lands of ancient Israel supply the backdrop to Azrieli\u2019s fascinating and deeply intriguing latest, which explores a young man\u2019s path to self-discovery and enlightenment. Determined to win the stunning daughter of the High Priest of Edom, a country to the south-east of Canaan, sixteen-year-old Sall sets on a harrowing journey, leaving his home and city behind. Fraught with deceits, trickeries, and hardships, Sall\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":6216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[38100332,24777292,7223,726,7215,3328,178,110607,92732,610903656,62857929,1473,1008073,856121,309,349],"class_list":["post-6215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-amreading","tag-amwriting","tag-author","tag-authors","tag-book-review","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-coming-of-age","tag-historical-fiction","tag-indie-books-review","tag-indiebooks","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-1Cf","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/elixirist.jpg?fit=313%2C500&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6218,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions\/6218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}