From the Bookshelf of Aussie Readers…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
5★ for a compelling, insightful story
What a talented writer Leah Kaminsky is. From what little I know of my friends’ experiences, I think she has captured the dilemma of many Jews who choose to live outside Israel. In this story, Melbourne-born Dina, who is a doctor and daughter of Holocaust survivors, falls in love with and marries Eitan, an Israeli-born Jew (a sabra) raised on a kibbutz.
The soundtrack of Dina’s youth was continuous, bitter recitals of Holocaust horrors and of the endless, univ ...more
What a talented writer Leah Kaminsky is. From what little I know of my friends’ experiences, I think she has captured the dilemma of many Jews who choose to live outside Israel. In this story, Melbourne-born Dina, who is a doctor and daughter of Holocaust survivors, falls in love with and marries Eitan, an Israeli-born Jew (a sabra) raised on a kibbutz.
The soundtrack of Dina’s youth was continuous, bitter recitals of Holocaust horrors and of the endless, univ ...more
Aug 29, 2015
Brenda
rated it
it was ok
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
aussie-authors,
net-galley,
2015-release,
read-on-kindle,
contemporary-fiction,
arc,
own-read
2.5★s
Eight months pregnant Dina was feeling the pressure – living in Haifa, Israel with her husband and son, she didn’t expect to be confronted by terrorism. But the announcement over the radio that morning had her worried. Dina and her husband were arguing a lot; she felt as if she was smothering her son with her worry and as a doctor, her patients were starting to drive her up the wall.
Finally she had had enough of the constant pressure – she left the surgery with its waiting room full of com ...more
Eight months pregnant Dina was feeling the pressure – living in Haifa, Israel with her husband and son, she didn’t expect to be confronted by terrorism. But the announcement over the radio that morning had her worried. Dina and her husband were arguing a lot; she felt as if she was smothering her son with her worry and as a doctor, her patients were starting to drive her up the wall.
Finally she had had enough of the constant pressure – she left the surgery with its waiting room full of com ...more
Aug 12, 2015
Shelleyrae at Book'd Out
rated it
really liked it
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
arc-are,
netgalley-reviews
The Waiting Room is the debut fiction novel from Leah Kaminsky, a physician and best selling non fiction author.
Dina is a family doctor living in contemporary Israel with her husband and young son. Haifa is a world away from the Melbourne suburbs where Dina grew up, the only daughter of holocaust survivors. Eight months pregnant with her second child, Dina is exhausted and increasingly anxious. Her marriage is strained, she is tired of her patients needs, and she is terrified by an escalated ter ...more
A short book the spans one day in the life of Dina, an expat-Melbournite doctor living in Haifa with her husband and child, but haunted by the tragedies her parents lived through in the holocaust. The book wrestles with the migrant experience, the conflict in the Middle East (although there is little sympathy or humanity given to the Palestinian perspective) and the lingering impacts of trauma.
Oct 01, 2015
Michael Livingston
marked it as to-read
Nov 11, 2015
Lauredhel
marked it as to-read
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
australian-women-writers-challenge,
australian
