The Family Moskat
  • Published: 2 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780099285489
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 768
  • RRP: $36.99

The Family Moskat

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A magnificent, terrifying, panoramic view of the decline of the Polish Jewry told by the Nobel Prize winning writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer

In the topsy-turvy years between the dawn of the twentieth century and the dark days of 1939, the Moskat family battled on. But like many Jewish families in Poland they can no longer turn a blind eye to the dwindling of their fortunes. In Warsaw, where saints mingle with swindlers, tough Zionists argue with mystic philosophers, and medieval rabbis rub shoulders with ultra-modern painters, life is inexorably changing. Secularism and war inch nearer and the family Moskat clings on.
  • Published: 2 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780099285489
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 768
  • RRP: $36.99
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About the author

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Issac Bashevis Singer was born in Poland in 1904, and emigrated to the United States in 1935, shortly after his first novel, Satan in Goray, had been published in instalments. In 1943 he became a US citizen, but he continued to write almost exclusively in Yiddish, personally supervising the translation of his works into English. In 1978 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Issac Bashevis Singer died in Florida in 1991.

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) was the author of many novels, stories, children's books, and a memoir. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978.

 

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Praise for The Family Moskat

A loving and detailed portrait of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.

Globe & Mail

His greatest work.

Ian Samson, Guardian '1000 novels everyone must read'

Whatever region his writing inhabits, it is blazing with life and actuality

New York Review of Books, Ted Hughes

A masterpiece, a triumph of realism, precisely finished, exactly located, a miraculous marriage of accuracy and imagination

Sunday Times

He makes most contemporary practitioners of the art of fiction look like singers with only one song

Guardian

Isaac Bashevis Singer celebrates the dignity, mystery and unexpected joy of living with more art and fervour than any other writer-one of the very best storytellers

Newsweek
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