After Anatevka picks up where Fiddler on the Roof leaves off, following Hodel’s courageous journey to reunite with Perchik in Siberia, as love, ideology, and resilience collide beyond the shtetl.

SYNOPSIS

Most actors imag­ine a back­sto­ry for the char­ac­ters they play. With After Anat­ev­ka, Al Sil­ber has done the oppo­site. After star­ring as Tzei­t­el in the most recent Broad­way revival of Fid­dler on the Roof and pre­vi­ous­ly play­ing Hodel in London’s West End, Al has writ­ten a book about what hap­pens after Hodel leaves the stage. The result is a sweep­ing his­tor­i­cal nov­el that imag­ines what hap­pens to the char­ac­ters of Fid­dler on the Roof after the cur­tain falls.

In After Anat­ev­ka, Hodel takes cen­ter stage as she boards a train to Siberia to fol­low Social­ist-lean­ing fiancee Per­chik, who has been exiled to a labor camp for his sup­port of the resis­tance. But before Hodel and Per­chik can final­ly be togeth­er, they each face extra­or­di­nary hur­dles and adver­saries — both per­son­al and polit­i­cal — set on keep­ing them apart. After Anat­ev­ka is a love sto­ry for the ages set against a back­drop of some of the great­est vio­lence in Euro­pean history.

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WHY WE LOVE THIS BOOK

"After Anatevka felt like a bridge between Sholom Aleichem’s Tevye the Dairyman and the emotional legacy of Fiddler on the Roof, offering a deeper and reimagined look into the lives of characters that I thought I already knew. As someone who teaches midrash, I was especially drawn to how the novel reimagines and expands the voices of the characters and storyline, staying true to the tradition but taking the story down new avenues."

Dr. Amy Milligan
Batten Endowed Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Women's and Gender Studies, Director of the Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alexandra Silber
Born in Los Angeles, California, Grammy-nominated artist Alexandra Silber grew up outside Detroit, Michigan.

She attended Interlochen Center for the Arts and continued her training at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, graduating with a degree in Acting. She graduated just days before her professional and West End debut as Laura Fairlie in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Woman in White at the age of 21.

Alexandra is a 2014 Grammy nominee for her portrayal of Maria in historic, first-ever concert presentation, accompanied by the first-ever full symphonic recording of West Side Story, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas with the San Francisco Symphony.

Alexandra recently completed a run on Broadway as Tzeitel in the revival of Fiddler of the Roof directed by Barlett Sher, starring 6-time Tony Nominee Danny Burstein as Tevye, followed immediately by creating the role of Countess Andreyni in Ken Ludwig's adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express at the McCarter Theater Center, and playing Guenevere in the celebrated Shakespeare Theater Company revival of The Lerner and Lowe classic Camelot in Washington DC.

Alexandra is also an avid blogger, writer, and teacher, and when she is not working, enjoys quoting the film "What About Bob?," and 'fan-girling' over Angela Lansbury -- but not necessarily in that order. She also has a fondness for crime drama, watermelon, and red shoes. She lives in New York with her famous cat, Tatiana.

After Anatevka is her first book, now available in paperback. Her memoir, White Hot Grief Parade is now available, also from Pegasus Books.