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"“A beautifully written novel about Zionism as an idea, Israel as a reality, and how the distance between the two shapes Jewish lives.” * Peter Beinart, author of ""The Crisis of Zionism"" * ""Nothing Vast is a rich, intelligent and lucid multigenerational narrative, spanning contexts and continents, weaving archival work with fiction, intertwining the catastrophic histories that make up the stories of nations with the small vicissitudes and moments of mercy that undergird individual lives. This book offers a compelling depiction of trauma, ideological fervor, dispossession and buried memories, both individual and collective; of the siren’s call of violent nationalism, which ultimately offers a false and hollow facsimile of redemption; and of the impact of all of this on the human heart, and soul."" * Moriel Rothman-Zecher, author of ""Before All the World"" and ""Sadness Is a White Bird"" * “Like a latter-day Joseph Roth, Marvit writes with dizzying breadth and ambition, chasing ghosts and djinns and the ordinary mysteries of families living through less-than-ordinary times. Nothing Vast is a story about stories—remembered, forgotten, invented, and erased—that plunges into the void at the center of Zionist myth and identity. This is a brave, tender, thoughtful book.” * Ben Ehrenreich, author of ""The Way to the Spring"" *"

“A beautifully written novel about Zionism as an idea, Israel as a reality, and how the distance between the two shapes Jewish lives.” * Peter Beinart, author of ""The Crisis of Zionism"" * ""Nothing Vast is a rich, intelligent and lucid multigenerational narrative, spanning contexts and continents, weaving archival work with fiction, intertwining the catastrophic histories that make up the stories of nations with the small vicissitudes and moments of mercy that undergird individual lives. This book offers a compelling depiction of trauma, ideological fervor, dispossession and buried memories, both individual and collective; of the siren’s call of violent nationalism, which ultimately offers a false and hollow facsimile of redemption; and of the impact of all of this on the human heart, and soul."" * Moriel Rothman-Zecher, author of ""Before All the World"" and ""Sadness Is a White Bird"" * “Like a latter-day Joseph Roth, Marvit writes with dizzying breadth and ambition, chasing ghosts and djinns and the ordinary mysteries of families living through less-than-ordinary times. Nothing Vast is a story about stories—remembered, forgotten, invented, and erased—that plunges into the void at the center of Zionist myth and identity. This is a brave, tender, thoughtful book.” * Ben Ehrenreich, author of ""The Way to the Spring"" *

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Moshe Zvi Marvit’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Nation, the New Republic, Dissent Magazine, In These Times, the American Prospect, the Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. Marvit lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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