Manger Itzik - The Book Of Paradise The Marvellous Life Story Of Samuel Abba Strewth - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 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.
Title: The Book Of Paradise The Marvellous Life Story Of Samuel Abba Strewth
Author(s): Manger Itzik
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Barcode: 9781782279259
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/19/2023
Series: Pushkin Press Classics
Category: Fiction In Translation