| #2813221 in Books | Other Press | 2008-10-14 | 2008-10-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.75 x1.10 x5.85l,1.06 | File type: PDF | 320 pages | Great product!||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Masterpiece...|By Jill Meyer|According to the biography of the author, Angel Wagenstein was born in 1922, making him 86 years old. This is his second novel published in English, though he has been a noted film maker and screenwriter in Bulgaria since the end of the Second World War. I read (and reviewed) his first novel, Farewell Shanghai, earlier this year.
I mentio|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . Bulgarian author and screenwriter Wagenstein devotes his powerful novel to an affable Jewish tailor from a small town in Eastern Europe who survives the reigns of Hitler and Stalin. Wagenstein himself escaped from a concentratio
This novel is the saga in five parts of Isaac Jacob Blumenfeld, who grows up in Kolodetz, a small town near Lvov, which, when he’s a boy, belongs to the Hapsburg Empire, but which subsequently belongs to Poland, Soviet Russia, Germany, and then Russia again. Isaac survives the absurdity and horror of Eastern Europe during the 20th century by pretending to be a fool. If this is an old Jewish art, then Isaac is a consummate artist. He plays the fool all his life, fro...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Isaac's Torah | Angel Wagenstein. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
