{"product_id":"9781782279259-the-book-of-paradise-the-marvellous-life-story-of-samuel-abba-strewth","title":"Manger Itzik - The Book Of Paradise The Marvellous Life Story Of Samuel Abba Strewth - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Book Of Paradise The Marvellous Life Story Of Samuel Abba Strewth\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Manger Itzik\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Pushkin Press\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781782279259\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 256 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 9\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nSeries: Pushkin Press Classics\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Fiction In Translation","brand":"Manger Itzik","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49623333601585,"sku":"IN-G-9781782279259","price":15.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781782279259.jpg?v=1724765834","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781782279259-the-book-of-paradise-the-marvellous-life-story-of-samuel-abba-strewth","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}