{"product_id":"the-book-of-paradise","title":"The Book of Paradise","description":"'Electrifying...sparkles with Manger's song and poetry, and is brilliantly layered with literary and folkloric references.' -- Tablet \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'There is something joyous about Manger's playful language.' -- The Jewish Chronicle \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe raucously witty Yiddish classic about a Jewish Paradise afflicted by very human temptations and pains -- a delightful new translation perfect for fans of Michael Chabon \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWitty, playful and slyly profound, this story of a young angel expelled from Paradise is the only novel by one of the great Yiddish writers, which was written just before the outbreak of World War II. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a result of a crafty trick, the expelled angel retains the memory of his previous life when he's born as a Yiddish-fluent baby mortal on Earth. The humans around him plead for details of that other realm, but the Paradise of his mischievous stories is far from their expectations: a world of drunken angels, lewd patriarchs and the very same divisions and temptations that shape the human world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished here in a lively new translation by Robert Adler Peckerar, The Book of Paradise is a comic masterpiece from poet-satirist Itzik Manger that irreverently blurs the boundaries between ancient and modern and sacred and profane, where the shtetl is heaven, and heaven is the shtetl.","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53855454953810,"sku":"9781782279259","price":14.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_39125333-4293-44c7-b6ff-d0cee780de93.jpg?v=1782608280","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/the-book-of-paradise","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}