Mazel (Library of American Fiction) - Softcover

Goldstein, Rebecca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299181243 ISBN 13: 9780299181246

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002

Synopsis

Mazel means luck in Yiddish, and luck is the guiding force in this magical and mesmerizing novel that spans three generations. Sasha Saunders is the daughter of a Polish rabbi who abandons the shtetl and wins renown as a Yiddish actress in Warsaw and New York. Her daughter Chloe becomes a professor of classics at Columbia. Chloe’s daughter Phoebe grows up to become a mathematician who is drawn to traditional Judaism and the sort of domestic life her mother and grandmother rejected.

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: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0299181243
• ISBN 13: 9780299181246
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 378