The Book of Paradise

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Beschreibung

<b>"Electrifying...sparkles with Manger's song and poetry, and is brilliantly layered with literary and folkloric references." <i>-- Tablet</i> </b>"There is something joyous about Manger's playful language." <i>-- The Jewish Chronicle</i> The raucously witty Yiddish classic about a Jewish Paradise afflicted by very human temptations and pains -- a delightful new translation perfect for fans of Michael Chabon Witty, playful and slyly profound, thisstory of a young angel expelled from Paradise is the only novel by one of the great Yiddish writers, which was written just before the outbreak of World War II. As a result of a crafty trick, the expelled angel retains the memory of his previous life when he's born as a Yiddish-fluent baby mortal on Earth. The humans around him plead for details of that other realm, but the Paradise of his mischievous stories is far from their expectations: a world of drunken angels, lewd patriarchs and the very same divisions and temptations that shape the human world. Published here in a lively new translation by Robert Adler Peckerar, <i>The Book of Paradise</i> is a comic masterpiece from poet-satirist Itzik Manger that irreverently blurs the boundaries between ancient and modern and sacred and profane, where the <i>shtetl</i> is heaven, and heaven is the <i>shtetl</i>.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781782279259

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

197 x 124 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Pushkin Press