The Magician of Lublin
$31.97
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
4 July 2012
Summary
Singer’s haunting second novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics
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 hom…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141197609 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141197609 |
| Author: | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 4 July 2012 |
| Weight: | 161g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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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
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 *
About The Author
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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.
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