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Sons and Daughters : A Novel

Name: Sons and Daughters : A Novel
Rating: 4.0 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780394536460

Chaim Grade; Rose Waldman; Adam Kirsch

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From “one of the great—if not the greatest—contemporary Yiddish novelists” (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march of modernity “A great beard novel . . . Also a great food novel . . . A melancholy book that also happens to be hopelessly, miraculously, unremittingly funny . . . [Grade’s] fretful characters vibrate as if they were drawn by Roz Chast [and] Rose Waldman's translation seems miraculous to me.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times “It is me the prophet laments when he cries out, ‘My enemies are the people in my own home.’” The Rabbi ignored his borscht and instead chewed on a crust of bread dipped in salt. “My greatest enemies are my own family.” Rabbi Sholem Shachne Katzenellenbogen’s world, the world of his forefathers, is crumbling...

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Year:

2025

Publisher:

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

2024017235

ISBN 13:

9780394536460