Author: Manger, Itzik, Peckerar, Robert Adler Classic fiction (pre c 1945)Published on 28 September 2023 by PUSHKIN PRESS in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Pushkin Classics' series.Paperback | 256 pages128 x 197 x 26 | 228g The raucously witty Yiddish classic about a Jewish Paradise afflicted by very human temptations and pains, in a new translationOn being expelled from Paradise, young Samuel Abba pulls a crafty trick, managing to arrive on earth with his memory intact. He quickly begins regaling the humans around him with mischievous stories of a Paradise far from their expectations: a world of drunken angels, lewd patriarchs and the same divisions and temptations that shape the human world.The Book of Paradise is a comic masterpiece, and the only novel by one of the great Yiddish writers. Written in the midst of rising anti-Semitism in 1930s Europe, its raucous blend of sacred and profane is a slyly profound reflection of the author's turbulent times.
