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The Magician of Lublin

by Isaac Bashevis Singer · 1959

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Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assistant who travels with him and a woman in every town. Now though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escape - from his marriage, his homeland and the last tendrils of his father's religion. Set in Warsaw and the shtetls of the 1870s, Isaac Bashevis Singer's second novel is a haunting psychological portrait of a man's flight from love.

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Themes
JewishJewishMore like thisLess of this
Setting
19th century19th centuryMore like thisLess of thisPolandPolandMore like thisLess of thisWarsawWarsawMore like thisLess of thisEuropeEuropeMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
medium · 208 pages

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