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A mesmerizing, inventive story of three souls in 1930s Philadelphia seizing new life while haunted by the old.
"ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh."
"I do not believe that all the world is darkness."
In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a former speakeasy called Cricket's, a bar that welcomes, as Charles says in his secondhand Yiddish, feygeles. Leyb is startled; fourteen years in amerike has taught him that his native tongue is not known beyond his people. And yet here is suave Charles, fingers stained with ink, an easy manner with the barkeep, a Black man from the Seventh Ward, a fellow traveler of Red Emma's, speaking Jewish to a young man he will come to call Lion.
Lion is haunted by memories of life before, in Zatelsk, where everyone in his village, everyone except the ten non-Jews, a young poet named Gittl, and Leyb himself, was taken to the forest and killed.
And then, miraculously, Gittl is in Philadelphia, too, thanks to a poem she wrote and the intervention of a shadowy character known only as the Baroness of Philadelphia. And surrounding Gittl are malokhim, the spirits of her siblings.
Flowing and churning and seething with a glorious surge of language, carried along by questions of survival and hope and the possibility of a better world, Moriel Rothman-Zecher's Before All the World lays bare the impossibility of escaping trauma, the necessity of believing in a better way ahead, and the power that comes from our responsibility to the future. It asks, in the voices of its angels, the most essential question: What do you intend to do before all the world?
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 'A mesmeric, enrapturing read' Eimear McBride'Beautiful and original' Colm Toibin'In startling language filled with the flavor of Yiddish's combination words, [Before All the World] moves forward and back and forward again in a dreamlike trance that acknowledges how the worst suffering exists side by side with the tender beauty of memory, friendship, words and the silences of recognition' Ilana Masad, NPR'Before All the World is poetry as it should be: deliberate while feeling casual, a game with words that is at once playful and deadly serious (sometimes by turns, sometimes truly simultaneously) . . . It swallowed me up, and then all at once, a word or a phrase would reach me like a bolt of lightning, charring and electrifying me all through' Jo Niederhoff, Seattle Book Review'Resembles something by Joyce or Samuel Beckett . . . A highly original and powerful tale told in defiance of the world's darkness' Stephanie Cross, The Daily Mail'Before All the World leaves you breathless . . . [Rothman-Zecher] has found a way to teach us how to find out what is most important about ourselves by losing himself in this novel of ingenious daring imagination and allowing us to accompany him on his ride. It is a masterful accomplishment that remains with the reader long after finishing this brilliant work' Elaine Margolin, Women in Judaism'An emotionally evocative exploration of the impossibility of escaping trauma, yet finding hope nevertheless when all seems destroyed' Hannah Srour-Zackon, The Canadian Jewish News'At its core, Before All the World considers one essential question: what does it mean to remember the past while still imagining the future? . . . Its most striking accomplishment is its invitation to the reader to become a part of the novel's chorus. What will you do, it asks, now that you've read this story?' Adina Applebaum, Jewish Book Council'Original, daring, experimental, moving, poignant, engaging . . . With shades of Tony Kushner and Cynthia Ozick . . . Before All the World understands how our worlds are made by words, and in the altering of the latter we may as yet redeem the former' Ed Simon, The Millions, 'Most Anticipated Books of 2022''Rich and engrossing . . . A powerful story, brilliantly told' Publishers Weekly, starred review'A one-of-a-kind creation' Kirkus Reviews'ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh''I do not believe that all the world is darkness'In the swirl of Prohibition-era Philadelphia, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a What does it mean to remember the past while still imagining the future? A mesmerizing story of two Jewish refugees and a Black writer - three lost souls who meet in 1930s Philadelphia and together seize new life while haunted by the old. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781472157430
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