The Magician of Lublin
Author(s): Isaac Bashevis Singer
Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assistant who travels with him and a woman in every town. Now, though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escape - from his marriage, his homeland and the last tendrils of his father's religion. Set in Warsaw and the shtetls of the 1870s, Isaac Bashevis Singer's second novel is a haunting psychological portrait of a man's flight from love. This title is winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
General Information
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Classics
- : 0.157
- : 01 April 2012
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 July 2012
- : 01 May 2016
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Isaac Bashevis Singer
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 839.133
- : 208
More About The Product
A spellbinder as clever as Scheherazade; he arrests the reader at once, transports him to a far place and a far, improbable time and does not let him go until the end New Republic Singer writes with a love and passion unequalled in contemporary fiction Washington Post
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-91) was the author of many novels, stories, children's books, and a memoir. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978.
