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In a bar in the Buenos Aires suburb of Villa Crespo a narrator recalls his encounters with an old man of Lithuanian descent, Samuel Warschauer, whom he came to know shortly before the man died. Among his papers, the narrator found the script of a curious play entitled The Moldavian Pimp, performed in Yiddish in the poor, Jewish area of the city in 1927 and 1928. The play concerned young Jewish girls from the Ukraine recruited by Jewish pimps to go to Argentina on the promises of freedom and a new life, only to find themselves sold into prostitution. Set in the Argentine capital and Paris, and ranging in time from the 1920s to the present day, Edgardo Cozarinsky’s beautiful and moving novel about Jewish immigrants may be among the few records of an extraordinary and little-known twilight society.
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Edgardo Cozarinsky is the author of The Bride from Odessa and Urban Voodoo. Alberto Manguel is the author of The Dictionary of Imaginary Places and The Library at Night.
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"Following the trafficking of women from eastern Europe during the 1920s and in the post-Communist era, this melancholy novel is powerfully written and is highly resonant for today's audience" -- Catherine Neilan Financial Times "Imagine a mixture of Borges, Thomas Pynchon, South American tango and Jewish musicals, and you begin to get the flavour of this extraordinary book" Jewish Chronicle "Airy, atmospheric, haunted by phantom breezes and the blurring of time; rich with the scent of sea voyages, cemeteries and the musty libraries, tango halls and Yiddish theatres of a long-forgotten Buenos Aires" -- Anderson Tepper Times Literary Supplement "A strange and profoundly moving addition to the literature of the Diaspora" -- Kate Saunders The Times "A remarkable and memorable achievement" -- Allan Massie Scotsman
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- PublisherRandom House UK
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 184343234X
- ISBN 13 9781843432340
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages144
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