The Family Moskat - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140051740 ISBN 13 : 9780140051742

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1980

Synopsis

635 pages. Bon état Couv. convenable Intérieur acceptable In-12 Carré Broché Trans. from the Yiddish by A.H. Gross. Cover by Martin Gascoigne.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'A masterpiece, a triumph of realism, precisely finished, exactly located, a miraculous marriage of accuracy and imagination' Sunday Times

In the topsy-turvy years between the dawn of the twentieth century and the dark days of 1939, the Moskat family battled on. But like many Jewish families in Poland they can no longer turn a blind eye to the dwindling of their fortunes. In Warsaw, where saints mingle with swindlers, tough Zionists argue with mystic philosophers, and medieval rabbis rub shoulders with ultra-modern painters, life is inexorably changing. Secularism and war inch nearer and the family Moskat clings on.

'His greatest work' Guardian

See also: Satan in Goray

Biographie de l'auteur :

Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in 1904, in Poland, the son of a rabbi. Fleeing fascism in 1935, he emigrated to America, penniless and knowing little English. 'I think that the whole of human history is one big Holocaust,' he said in 1987, when asked why there was no direct mention of the Holocaust in his fiction. 'It is not only Jewish history. We can call human history the history of the human Holocaust'. Singer's fiction - novels such as The Family Moskat (1950) and The Magician of Lublin (1960), and story collections such as Gimpel the Fool (1957) and The Spinoza of Market Street (1961) - became admired internationally and he was awarded the Nobel prize in 1978. He died in 1998.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0140051740
• ISBN 13: 9780140051742
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 640