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The first collection of stories in English by the acclaimed author of Past Continuous With the publication of his Past Continuous in 1983, Yaakov Shabtai assumed a place of eminence in the canon of modern Jewish literature. Alan Lelchuk, in the New York Times, acclaimed its portrait of contemporary Israeli society as 'the most prodigious (and probably most realistic) in Hebrew fiction.' In Uncle Peretz Takes Off, the first collection of Shabtai's short fiction in English, a magnificent gallery of comic and idiosyncratic characters gives Tel Aviv of the 1940s an unpredictable frontier quality. Written with biting irony and a vivid, atmospheric style, the author portrays a society of individualists and schemers in search of redemption: Uncle Shmuel tries to make his fortune as a poulterer; Uncle Pinek, a born swindler, ends his days as a refugee in Monaco fleeing his creditors; Albert Weiss-Finek dreams of a travelling circus in Palestine, while promising to marry three different women; the uncontrollably ribald Tamara Bell, who poses naked for artists, causes adolescent boys in the neighbourhood small, excruciating flickers of desire. With unparalleled lyricism and humanity, Shabtai's stories embody the comedy, energy, and tragedy of the early years of the Zionist enterprise.
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"Shabtai's images fix themselves on the memory and will not leave. If genius means ... 'having a heart full of love and a wicked eye, ' it is this quality that marks the Israeli writer."
About the Author:
Yaakov Shabtai (1934-1981) is the author of plays, short stories, a children's book, and the novels Past Continuous and Past Perfect. He was awarded the 1986 Kenneth B. Smilen Literary Award, and in 1999 the Tel Aviv Municipality named a street after him in a new district of the city.
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- PublisherGerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0715633430
- ISBN 13 9780715633434
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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