THE FAMILY NASHBER

DER NISTER ('the Hidden one")

ISBN 10: 0671527681 / ISBN 13: 9780671527686

Published by SUMMIT BOOKS, NY, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

Title: THE FAMILY NASHBER

Publisher: SUMMIT BOOKS, NY

Publication Date: 1987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VG

Dust Jacket Condition: VG

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Focusing on the three Mashber brothers--Moshe, Luzi, and Alter--this novel follows a prosperous family in mid-nineteenth-century Russia whose cataclysmic decline engulfs all those in its path

About the Author:

Der Nister (1884–1950) was the pen name used by Pinhas Kahanovitch, a Yiddish writer, philosopher, translator, critic, and key figure in modernist literature in Kiev in the 1920s. In 1921, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Der Nister left Russia and settled in Germany, where he published two collections of stories. In 1927, he returned to the Soviet Union, where his work was declared reactionary by the Soviet regime and its literary critics. He was arrested in 1949 and died in a Soviet prison hospital in 1950.

 

Leonard Wolf is a much-published writer of poetry, fiction, social history, and biography, and a leading translator of Yiddish literature. He lives in New York City.

 

David Malouf is a novelist and poet. His novel The Great World was awarded the Commonwealth Prize and Remembering Babylon was short-listed for the Booker Prize. He has received the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Sydney, Australia.