Mazel - Softcover

Goldstein, Rebecca

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140239057 ISBN 13: 9780140239058

Publisher: Penguin, 1996

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A novel of three generations of Jewish women begins with Sasha, the matriarch, who has learned of Mazel, the great confounder of order and predictability, from her experiences in pre-war Warsaw and her current life in New York, as she passes this knowledge onto her daughter and granddaughter. Reprin

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Review:

"Shimmering with humor and intelligence."--"The New Yorker"

"From the first lines of Goldstein's enchanting novel "Mazel" . . . comes a voice redolent of matzoh balls and Schopenhauer, feeding body and spirit."--"Village Voice"

"Goldstein has written female characters as worthy of Phillip Roth and Grace Paley as they are of their grand European progenitors, Sholem Aleichem and S. Y. Agnon."--"Los Angeles Times"

"Shimmering with humor and intelligence."--"The New Yorker"

"From the first lines of Goldstein's enchanting novel "Mazel" . . . comes a voice redolent of matzoh balls and Schopenhauer, feeding body and spirit."--"Village Voice"

"Shimmering with humor and intelligence." "The New Yorker""

"From the first lines of Goldstein s enchanting novel "Mazel" . . . comes a voice redolent of matzoh balls and Schopenhauer, feeding body and spirit." "Village Voice""

"Goldstein has written female characters as worthy of Phillip Roth and Grace Paley as they are of their grand European progenitors, Sholem Aleichem and S. Y. Agnon." "Los Angeles Times""

"A superb storyteller, Goldstein not only brings the almost-vanished world of Eastern European Jewry to life bit also conveys the depth and power of that culture." "San Francisco Chronicle""

"Shimmering with humor and intelligence." The New Yorker

About the Author:

Rebecca Goldstein teaches creative writing at Columbia University.

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