The Magician of Lublin

The Magician of Lublin

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Paperback Published on: 03/05/2012
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Synopsis

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.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780141197609
  • Number of pages: 208
  • Weight: 160g
  • Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 13 mm

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