| The Book of Blam Contributor(s): Tisma, Aleksandar (Author), Simic, Charles (Introduction by), Heim, Michael (Translator) |
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ISBN: 159017920X ISBN-13: 9781590179208 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Jewish |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2015029992 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Family - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Balkan - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Holocaust |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Book of Blam, Aleksandar Tisma's "extended kaddish . . . his] masterpiece" (Kirkus Reviews), is a modern-day retelling of the book of Job. The war is over. Miroslav Blam walks along the former Jew Street, and he remembers. He remembers Aaron Gr n, the hunchbacked watchmaker; and Eduard Fiker, a lamp merchant; and Jakob Mentele, a stove fitter; and Arthur Spitzer, a grocer, who played amateur soccer and had non-Jewish friends; and S ndor V rtes, a lawyer who was a Communist. All dead. As are his younger sister and his best friend, a Serb, both of whom joined the resistance movement; and his mother and father in the infamous Novi Sad raid in January 1942--when the Hungarian Arrow Cross executed 1,400 Jews and Serbs on the banks of the Danube and tossed them into the river. Blam lives. The war he survived will never be over for him. |