First Edition. Very Good Condition. Light Wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Section cut out from first two pages. Dust Jacket has slight shelf-wear to edges. Appears to be Signed by The Author. Pictures available upon request.

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Title

The Empire of Kalman the Cripple (Signed by Author)

Publisher

Syracuse University Press, United States of America

Publication Date

1997

Language

English

ISBN 10

0815604483

ISBN 13

9780815604488

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition.

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Kalman, a Jew living in Poland just before World War II, is a cunning, ill-tempered man who maliciously seeks revenge on others, but who ultimately claws out a better world for those he loves

Reviews

The Empire Of Kalman The Cripple ($26.95; May 5, 1997; 330 pp.; 0- 8156-0448-3): A later (1983) novel set in a Polish shtetl on the eve of the Second World War, this is a masterly character study of an embittered, crafty shopkeeper who by sheer force of will transforms himself from ``a thief and a lecher . . . [into] an upstanding citizen and a philanthropist.'' Both Kalman's Balzacian appetite for life and his forebears' frustrated struggles for security are explored in convincing depth in a many-leveled narrative that accomplishes the difficult feat of eliciting our compassionate empathy with its disagreeable antihero. Once again (see above), Elberg tacks an anticlimactic moralizing finale onto a story that is otherwise a triumph. -- Copyright �1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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