The Jew of New York - 9780375700972
Un libro in lingua di Ben Katchor edito da Pantheon Books, 2001
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In 1825, Mordecai Noah, a New York politician and amateur playwright possessed of a utopian vision, summoned all the lost tribes of Israel to an island near Buffalo in the hope of establishing a Jewish state. His failed plan, a mere footnote in Jewish-American history, is the starting point for Ben Katchor's brilliantly imagined epic that unfolds on the streets of New York a few years later.
A disgraced kosher slaughterer, an importer of religious articles and women's hosiery, a pilgrim peddling soil from the Holy Land, a latter-day Kabbalist, a man with plans to carbonate Lake Erie--these are just some of the characters who move through Katchor's universe, their lives interwoven in a common struggle to settle into the New World even as it erupts into a financial frenzy that could as easily leave them bankrupt as carry them into the future.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Jew of New York
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Ben Katchor
- Editore: Pantheon Books
- Collana: Pantheon Books (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Gennaio '01
- Genere: FICTION
- Pagine: 108
- Dimensioni mm: 215 x 209 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0375700978
- EAN-13: 9780375700972