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| #2895632 in Books | 2014-02-18 | 2014-02-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.43 x.93 x6.18l,.68 | File type: PDF | 224 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Shlepping the Exile by Michael Wex|By Susan L|Michael Wex packs 3,000 years of history and at least a millenium of rabbinic argument into his phrases and hurls them at us at warp speed. AND - there's nobody funnier. Go figure. Hooray!!!|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Fantastic!|By Customer|I simply love th|||“Yoine is smart--smarter, really, than a character of his age and demeanor has any right to be, but it's his quick-witted running commentary that carries the novel . . .Wex [excels] at building incongruous characters who demonstrate the counterintuitive
Svelte and supple as unleavened bread, Shlepping the Exile rends the shmaltz from Jewish fiction and replaces it with a pound of real flesh.
It's the story of Yoine Levkes, a hassidic boy of the Canadian prairies, his refugee parents, and the Jewish community of Coalbanks, Alberta in the late 1950s. Confronted with dying people, an ailing culture, the perils of near-orphanhood and the allures of Sabina Mandelbroit, whose family doesn't keep the Sabbath, ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Shlepping the Exile: A Novel | Michael Wex. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.