Babel Guide to Jewish Fiction - Babel Guide

Who better to tell the story of the Jewish People than the tribe of Jewish storytellers? And what a tribe -- Proust, Kafka, Primo Levi, Shalom Aleichem, Israel Zangwill, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Clarice Lispector, Mordecai Richler, Amos Oz and Nobel-winner S Y Agnon. The Babel Guide is a unique introduction to fiction by Jews from around the world available in English with inviting, informative reviews of 150 new and old Jewish classics, with an author database and a listing of all fiction translated from Yiddish and Hebrew into English.

Product details

• Assisted by: Saskia Brown (Editor), Ray Keenoy (Editor)
• Publisher: Boulevard Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9781899460250
• ISBN: 978-1-899460-25-0
• No. of pages: 285
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 228 g
• Series: Babel Guides to Literature in English Translation; Babel Guides to Literature in English Translation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias