Mazel - Softcover

Goldstein, Rebecca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140239057 ISBN 13: 9780140239058

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1996

Synopsis

A novel of three generations of Jewish women begins with Sasha, the matriarch, who has learned of Mazel, the great confounder of order and predictability, from her experiences in pre-war Warsaw and her current life in New York, as she passes this knowledge onto her daughter and granddaughter. Reprint.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"From the first lines of Goldstein's enchanting novel Mazel . . . comes a voice redolent of matzoh balls and Schopenhauer, feeding body and spirit."-Village Voice

"Goldstein has written female characters as worthy of Phillip Roth and Grace Paley as they are of their grand European progenitors, Sholem Aleichem and S. Y. Agnon."-Los Angeles Times

"A superb storyteller, Goldstein not only brings the almost-vanished world of Eastern European Jewry to life bit also conveys the depth and power of that culture."-San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author:

Rebecca Goldstein is author of The Mind-Body Problem, The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind, The Dark Sister, Strange Attractors, and Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics. A MacArthur Prize Fellow, she is professor of philosophy at Trinity College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140239057
• ISBN 13: 9780140239058
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368