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| Title: | Babel Guide to Jewish Fiction
: Babel Guide |
| Author: | Ray Keenoy & Saskia Brown (eds) |
| ISBN: | 189946025X : 9781899460250 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 130x200mm |
| Pages: | 285 |
| Weight: | .231 Kg. |
| Published: | Boulevard Books - January 1998 |
| List Price: | 9.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general: Reference works: Jewish studies |
Who better to tell the story of the Jewish People than the tribe of Jewish storytellers? And what a tribe -- Proust, Kafka, Primo Levi, Shalom Aleichem, Israel Zangwill, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Clarice Lispector, Mordecai Richler, Amos Oz and Nobel-winner S Y Agnon. The Babel Guide is a unique introduction to fiction by Jews from around the world available in English with inviting, informative reviews of 150 new and old Jewish classics, with an author database and a listing of all fiction translated from Yiddish and Hebrew into English.
"Easy and enjoyable..." -- The Times Literary Supplement. "Intelligent, comprehensible and entertaining..." -- Library Review. "An excellent series..." -- The Guardian. "Its user-friendly and reader-tempting; this is because of the excellent reviews..." -- The Observer. "Aimed at the reading public, these guides should be equally useful to librarians and teachers..." -- The Linguist. "Splendid and useful... a beautifully-conceived series of guides presenting English translations of contemporary fiction...." -- In Other Words. "A brilliant idea, well executed..." -- The Good Book Guide. "A brilliant idea..." -- BBC Radio 3.
