The Brothers Ashkenazi: A Novel - Softcover

Singer, I. J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590512901 ISBN 13: 9781590512906

Verlag: Other Press, 2010

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"A wonderful novel."
--Saul Bellow

"The book has the grand sweep of Tolstoy...pitch perfect artistry and pace."
--The Wall Street Journal

"The Brothers Ashkenazi rates a place on any shelf devoted to modern works of art."
--Newsweek

"A very powerful story has been seized upon by a very powerful story-teller...Singer has a stirring gift of narrative; he always writes with verve, sometimes with intensity; his book has magnitude and color and, as it were, a consciousness of its weighty theme."
--The New York Times Book Review

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In the Polish city of Lodz, the brothers Ashkenazi grew up very differently in talent and in temperament. Max, the firstborn, is fiercely intelligent and conniving, determined to succeed financially by any means necessary. Slower-witted Jacob is strong, handsome, and charming but without great purpose in life. While Max is driven by ambition and greed to be more successful than his brother, Jacob is drawn to easy living and decadence. As waves of industrialism and capitalism flood the city, the brothers and their families are torn apart by the clashing impulses of old piety and new skepticism, traditional ways and burgeoning appetites, and the hatred that grows between faiths, citizens, and classes. Despite all attempts to control their destinies, the brothers are caught up by forces of history, love, and fate, which shape and, ultimately, break them.
   First published in 1936, The Brothers Ashkenazi quickly became a best seller as a sprawling family saga. Breaking away from the introspective shtetl tales of classic nineteenth-century writers, I. J. Singer brought to Yiddish literature the multilayered plots, large casts of characters, and narrative sweep of the traditional European novel. Walking alongside such masters as Zola, Flaubert, and Tolstoy, I . J. Singer’s premodernist social novel stands as a masterpiece of storytelling.

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• Verlag: Other Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1590512901
• ISBN 13: 9781590512906
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 460