Itzik Manger: The Book of Paradise, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Book of Paradise
- Translation:
- Robert Adler Peckerar
- Publisher:
- Pushkin Press, 09/2023
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781782279259
- Item number:
- 11136847
- Volume:
- 251 Pages
- Weight:
- 367 g
- Format:
- 197 x 124 mm
- Thickness:
- 22 mm
- Release date:
- 28.9.2023
- Series:
- Pushkin Classics
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
"Electrifying...sparkles with Manger's song and poetry, and is brilliantly layered with literary and folkloric references." -- Tablet
"There is something joyous about Manger's playful language." -- The Jewish Chronicle
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, The Book of Paradise is a comic masterpiece from poet-satirist Itzik Manger that irreverently blurs the boundaries between ancient and modern and sacred and profane, where the shtetl is heaven, and heaven is the shtetl.
