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The Art of Smiling
What a beautiful love story involving a jewish teenager and a middle aged musslim!...
And... at this very moment... after this startling beginning, I believe a short break is required — long enough to avoid that menacing wave of negative thoughts that I feel coming my way:
"A love story between a middle aged guy and a teen?!"
"What does she mean by that?!"
"Gosh! What a pervert!”...
In my defense, I feel obliged to say, that I'm definitely not a pervert, and I intend to prove it, in the following lines of this review:
As we all know, love is a feeling that expresses itself in a wide variety of forms!
Among them, is the love between father and son, and that's the one I definitely mean!...
Moses, a young jewish boy, whose mother was not around and whose real father didn't know much about affection, needed someone to love him and guide him along his life path. Or, to put it clear and simple, he needed a parent substitute.
Since whenever something is truly needed, life itself finds a way to provide it, our Moses got himself a male parent in the person of Ibrahim - a quite peculiar grocer, who found great joy in the flowers of Quran. In simple words, Ibrahim was using the gem of religion, to embellish life.
This musslim grocer, was standing for Moses unaffectionate father - he was his tutor and his master, and among other things, he taught him the art of smiling...
This book is passing a quite positive message - in here, we find religion as a source of harmony, instead of segregation.
After all, one of religion's purposes is to guide us into better beings, though in our era, it's something mostly forgotten.
In this story, the author recovers the core of religion, and somehow, he shows us how to use it as a contribution to a better world...
I'm not religious but that's ok with me!
It's a brilliant idea you got there, Mr. Schmitt!
You have my 100 per cent support
What a beautiful love story involving a jewish teenager and a middle aged musslim!...
And... at this very moment... after this startling beginning, I believe a short break is required — long enough to avoid that menacing wave of negative thoughts that I feel coming my way:
"A love story between a middle aged guy and a teen?!"
"What does she mean by that?!"
"Gosh! What a pervert!”...
In my defense, I feel obliged to say, that I'm definitely not a pervert, and I intend to prove it, in the following lines of this review:
As we all know, love is a feeling that expresses itself in a wide variety of forms!
Among them, is the love between father and son, and that's the one I definitely mean!...
Moses, a young jewish boy, whose mother was not around and whose real father didn't know much about affection, needed someone to love him and guide him along his life path. Or, to put it clear and simple, he needed a parent substitute.
Since whenever something is truly needed, life itself finds a way to provide it, our Moses got himself a male parent in the person of Ibrahim - a quite peculiar grocer, who found great joy in the flowers of Quran. In simple words, Ibrahim was using the gem of religion, to embellish life.
This musslim grocer, was standing for Moses unaffectionate father - he was his tutor and his master, and among other things, he taught him the art of smiling...
This book is passing a quite positive message - in here, we find religion as a source of harmony, instead of segregation.
After all, one of religion's purposes is to guide us into better beings, though in our era, it's something mostly forgotten.
In this story, the author recovers the core of religion, and somehow, he shows us how to use it as a contribution to a better world...
I'm not religious but that's ok with me!
It's a brilliant idea you got there, Mr. Schmitt!
You have my 100 per cent support