{"product_id":"the-book-of-paradise-itzik-manger-9781782279259","title":"The Book of Paradise","description":"“Electrifying…sparkles with Manger’s song and poetry, and is brilliantly layered with literary and folkloric references.” — Tablet\n“There is something joyous about Manger’s playful language.” — The Jewish Chronicle\nThe 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\nWitty, 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.\nAs 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.\nPublished 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":"Pushkin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50568761147680,"sku":"9781782279259","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781782279259.jpg?v=1768234478","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-book-of-paradise-itzik-manger-9781782279259","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}