The Book of Paradise (Pushkin Press Classics)
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- Synopsis
- 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 ChabonWitty, playful and slyly profound, this story 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.
- Copyright:
- 1939
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781782279266
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781782279259
- Publisher:
- Steerforth Press
- Date of Addition:
- 09/19/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Robert Adler Peckerar
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Humor
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Translator:
- Robert Adler Peckerar