The Book of Paradise

Name: The Book of Paradise
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SKU: 9781782279259
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The Marvellous Life Story of Samuel Abba Strewth

By Itzik Manger

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The Book of Paradise by Itzik Manger is a captivating work of fiction that weaves tales with mystical, lyrical storytelling. Set against a backdrop of folklore and imagination, the narrative explores themes of identity and the pursuit of understanding within one's own cultural tapestry. The book is renowned for its rich poetic style, bringing to life a world where tradition and fantasy blend seamlessly.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy diving into tales that elegantly blend modern sensibilities with timeless folklore. It offers a vivid portrayal of traditional life through a poetic and imaginative lens, making it perfect for those who appreciate stories enriched with cultural nuances and lyrical storytelling.

The Book of Paradise

The raucously witty Yiddish classic about a Jewish Paradise afflicted by very human temptations and pains, in a new translation

Description

Samuel Abba is a young angel who has just been expelled from Paradise. As a result of a crafty trick, Samuel has retained his memory of his previous life. 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.

Witty, playful, and slyly profound, The Book of Paradise is the only novel by one of the great Yiddish writers. Published here in a lively new translation by Robert Adler Peckerar, it is a comic masterpiece that irreverently blurs the boundaries between ancient and modern, and sacred and profane.

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The Book of Paradise by Itzik Manger is praised for its unique blend of whimsy, fantasy, and satire, vividly capturing East European Jewish folklore and traditions. Reviewers highlight its high-spirited nature and commend Robert Adler Peckerar's lively translation from Yiddish. The Jewish Chronicle mentions the joyous and playful use of language throughout the novel.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781782279259

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 September 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pushkin Press Classics

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Translated by Robert Adler Peckerar

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 256

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About the Author

Itzik Manger was born in 1901 to a Jewish family in Czernowitz (then Austria-Hungary; now Chernivtsi, Ukraine). He began publishing poems and ballads in literary journals after the First World War, moving to Bucharest where he wrote for the local Yiddish press and gave lectures. Manger's literary reputation was made in Warsaw: he relocated there in 1928 and found considerable success publishing volumes of poetry and his own literary journal, doing public readings and composing lyrics for the Yiddish cabaret and the Yiddish film industry. Manger began writing The Book of Paradise in the mid-1930s amid rising anti-Semitism. The novel was initially serialized in 1937 in the Warsaw-based newspaper Naye Folkstsaytung. Forced to leave Poland the next year, Manger negotiated the publication of The Book of Paradise as a stateless person in Paris. He later moved to England and then the United States before settling in Israel, where he died in 1969.