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  • Published: 4 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141197609
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $24.99
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The Magician of Lublin




Singer's haunting second novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics

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

  • Published: 4 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141197609
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

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Praise for The Magician of Lublin

A spellbinder as clever as Scheherazade; he arrests the reader at once, transports him to a far place and a far, improbable time and does not let him go until the end

New Republic

Singer writes with a love and passion unequalled in contemporary fiction

Washington Post
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