Daniel Stein, Interpreter: A Novel in Documents - Softcover

Ulitskaya, Ludmila

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9781468300666: Daniel Stein, Interpreter: A Novel in Documents

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ISBN 10: 1468300660 ISBN 13: 9781468300666

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2012

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Praise for Ludmila Ulitskaya:
Ludmila Ulitskaya arrives here not just as a shrewd novelist, but as a wise and evocative artist. --"The Philadelphia Inquirer"
One of the most important living Russian writers. --Gary Shteyngart, author of "The Russian Debutante s Handbook"
?A feat of love and tolerance.? --"Washington Post"

?Ludmila Ulitskaya arrives here not just as a shrewd novelist, but as a wise and evocative artist.? --"The Philadelphia Inquirer"

?One of the most important living Russian writers.? --Gary Shteyngart, author of "Super Sad True Love Story"

?With warmth and intelligence, "Daniel Stein" addresses life's great challenges and the complexities of faith, though not everyone is pleased with his unorthodox views.? --" Publisher's Weekly"
"A feat of love and tolerance." --"Washington Post"
"Ludmila Ulitskaya arrives here not just as a shrewd novelist, but as a wise and evocative artist." --"The Philadelphia Inquirer"
"One of the most important living Russian writers." --Gary Shteyngart, author of "Super Sad True Love Story"
"With warmth and intelligence, "Daniel Stein" addresses life's great challenges and the complexities of faith, though not everyone is pleased with his unorthodox views." --" Publisher's Weekly"
"Ulitskaya is Russia's best-selling novelist, and "Daniel Stein, Interpreter" has something for everyone. A docudrama, a post-modern epistolary novel, it tells the 'true story' of the improbable, heroic life of a Polish Jew who translates for the Gestapo, saves part of a ghetto, escapes execution, hides in a convent, converts to Catholicism, joins the partisans, emigrates to Israel, and re-founds the Church of St. James, a community for which he performs mass in Hebrew. He offe

"Ludmilla Ulitskaya's "Daniel Stein, Interpreter" is a refreshing affirmation of the beauty of hybridity . . . The novel is meticulously researched, providing sketches of the historical development of Christianity and its separation from Judaism, as well as ancient and modern Israeli history. It becomes a collage about a man who 'lived in the presence of God' . . . Intriguing." -- The Daily Beast
"A feat of love and tolerance." --"Washington Post"
"Ludmila Ulitskaya arrives here not just as a shrewd novelist, but as a wise and evocative artist." --"The Philadelphia Inquirer"
""Daniel Stein: Interpreter" is a patchwork of letters, diaries, official notes, reports and recorded speeches that seem to both hide and explore the extraordinary tale of Daniel, formerly Dieter Stein, the interpreter of the title . . . [Ulitskaya's] own struggles with the book, recorded in her letters, form part of the novel and allow an unusually intimate glance into the challenges of wri

Praise for Ludmila Ulitskaya:

]Ludmila Ulitskaya arrives here not just as a shrewd novelist, but as a wise and evocative artist.] -- "The Philadelphia Inquirer"

]One of the most important living Russian writers.] --Gary Shteyngart, author of "Super Sad True Love Story"
"Rarely does a novel appear that is as commanding and brilliant as "Daniel Stein, Interpreter.""--"The Chronicle Herald"

"A refreshing affirmation of the beauty of hybridity Intriguing." "The Daily Beast"
"Rarely does a novel appear that is as commanding and brilliant as "Daniel Stein, Interpreter." "The Chronicle Herald""

About the Author:

Ludmila Ulitskaya was born in western Russia and worked as a scientist before becoming Repertory Director of the Hebrew Theater of Moscow. She is hailed as Russia's bestselling literary novelist.
Arch Tait has a PhD in Russian literature from Cambridge. He has translated the work of many leading Russian writers.

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