The Magician of Lublin by Singer, Isaac Bashevis
£10.99
Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Published on 3 May 2012 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Penguin Modern Classics’ series.
Paperback | 208 pages
128 x 195 x 13 | 162g
Description
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
