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The Family Mashber is a protean work: a tale of a divided family and divided souls, a panoramic picture of an Eastern European town, a social satire, a kabbalistic allegory, an innovative fusion of modernist art and traditional storytelling, a tale of weird humor and mounting tragic power, embellished with a host of uncanny and fantastical figures drawn from daily life and the depths of the unconscious. Above all, the book is an account of a world in crisis (in Hebrew, mashber means crisis), torn between the competing claims of family, community, business, politics, the individual conscience, and an elusive God.
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Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
Release date: 27 August 2008
ISBN-10 : 1590172795 | ISBN-13: 9781590172797
Release date: 27 August 2008
ISBN-10 : 1590172795 | ISBN-13: 9781590172797
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