The raucously witty Yiddish classic about a Jewish Paradise afflicted by very human temptations and pains,in a new translationOn being expelled from Paradise,young Samuel Abba pulls a crafty trick,managing to arrive on earth with his memory intact. He quickly begins regaling the humans around him with mischievous stories of a Paradise far from their expectations: a world of drunken angels,lewd patriarchs and the same divisions and temptations that shape the human world.The Book of Paradise is a comic masterpiece,and the only novel by one of the great Yiddish writers. Written in the midst of rising anti-Semitism in 1930s Europe,its raucous blend of sacred and profane is a slyly profound reflection of the author's turbulent times.
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Publisher: Pushkin PressISBN: 9781782279259Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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There is something joyous about Manger's playful languageItzik Manger's novel strikes an utterly distinctive note in modern fiction-a high-spirited amalgam of whimsy,fantasy,and satire,all of it anchored in a rich sense of the folklore,belief system,and social behavior of East European Jewry before modernity.The book is a delight to read,and it is well-served by Robert Adler Peckerar's lively,colloquially vivid translation from the YiddishElectrifying... sparkles with Manger's song and poetry,and is brilliantly layered with literary and folkloric references'
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