Isaac Goldemberg (142 results)

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Lima, 1970: a tremendous earthquake has just struck the Peruvian capital, and mayhem reigns. Tensions are high, with a population reeling from the disaster and mesmerized by the World Cup. Enter detective Simon Weiss, tasked with solving two seemingly unrelated murders: the crucifying and beheading of a Japanese man in a pool hall and an apparent murder-by-hanging of an elderly Jewish man. Joined by Lieutenant Kato Kanashiro, whose deep ties to Japanese-Peruvian culture inform the case in surprisingly personal ways, Weiss traces the histories of two very different criminals and their crimes. Weiss is haunted by the trauma of a childhood partly spent in a German concentration camp. Weiss is troubled -- boozing, coke-snorting, and vengeful. He is unfaithful to his prostitute lover and takes up with a younger, married woman who is a fellow survivor of the Holocaust. Weiss and Kanashiro's banter is hilariously recorded with Goldemberg's deadpan police procedural narration. Beyond a simple pulp, Remember the Scorpion tracks the wreckage of the Second World War and reconstructs it in the conflicted psyche of a South American detective. Weiss must uncover the relation between the perpetrators and their crimes, while searching deep within himself to conquer his own demons. …

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Lima, 1970: a tremendous earthquake has just struck the Peruvian capital, and mayhem reigns. Tensions are high, with a population reeling from the disaster and mesmerized by the World Cup. Enter detective Simon Weiss, tasked with solving two seemingly unrelated murders: the crucifying and beheading of a Japanese man in a pool hall and an apparent murder-by-hanging of an elderly Jewish man. Joined by Lieutenant Kato Kanashiro, whose deep ties to Japanese-Peruvian culture inform the case in surprisingly personal ways, Weiss traces the histories of two very different criminals and their crimes. Weiss is haunted by the trauma of a childhood partly spent in a German concentration camp. Weiss is troubled -- boozing, coke-snorting, and vengeful. He is unfaithful to his prostitute lover and takes up with a younger, married woman who is a fellow survivor of the Holocaust. Weiss and Kanashiro's banter is hilariously recorded with Goldemberg's deadpan police procedural narration. Beyond a simple pulp, Remember the Scorpion tracks the wreckage of the Second World War and reconstructs it in the conflicted psyche of a South American detective.Weiss must uncover the relation between the perpetrators and their crimes, while searching deep within himself to conquer his own demons. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Lima, 1970: a tremendous earthquake has just struck the Peruvian capital, and mayhem reigns. Tensions are high, with a population reeling from the disaster and mesmerized by the World Cup. Enter detective Simon Weiss, tasked with solving two seemingly unrelated murders: the crucifying and beheading of a Japanese man in a pool hall and an apparent murder-by-hanging of an elderly Jewish man. Joined by Lieutenant Kato Kanashiro, whose deep ties to Japanese-Peruvian culture inform the case in surprisingly personal ways, Weiss traces the histories of two very different criminals and their crimes. Weiss is haunted by the trauma of a childhood partly spent in a German concentration camp. Weiss is troubled -- boozing, coke-snorting, and vengeful. He is unfaithful to his prostitute lover and takes up with a younger, married woman who is a fellow survivor of the Holocaust. Weiss and Kanashiro's banter is hilariously recorded with Goldemberg's deadpan police procedural narration. Beyond a simple pulp, Remember the Scorpion tracks the wreckage of the Second World War and reconstructs it in the conflicted psyche of a South American detective. Weiss must uncover the relation between the perpetrators and their crimes, while searching deep within himself to conquer his own demons. …

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1985. Persea Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0892550929. Translated from the Spanish by Hardie St. Martin. 172 pages. hardcover. Jacket painting by Susan Walp. Jacket design by Peter St. John Ginna. keywords: Latin America Peru Literature Translated Jewish World Literature. DESCRIPTION - With this long-awaited second novel the author of the highly acclaimed FRAGMENTED LIFE OF DON JACOBO LERNER fulfills his early promise. Wildly imaginative and darkly comic, PLAY BY PLAY is, most powerfully, a deep, compassionate portrait of a young man born of two distinct and often conflicting worlds. Marquitos Karushansky, a star professional soccer player, is the son of a native Peruvian woman and an immigrant European Jew. Brought up solely by his mother, he was raised among the myths and traditions of native Peruvian culture. Then, at the age of twelve, his father returned to reclaim him, to make him a Jew. The story of Marquito's conversion and its aftermath is told in a variety of narratives: a meditation which focuses on the endless moment of circumcision; the first-person accounts of two friends, one from a Jewish boys' school and the other from a military academy; and through the frenetic voice of a sports announcer who recounts, play by play, the episodes of Marquitos's life, magically transformed into the complex tactics of a soccer game in Lima's National Stadium. For his depiction of the Jewish experience in South America, Mr. Goldemberg has no peer. inventory #565.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1976. Persea Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0892550023. Translated from the Spanish by Robert S. Picciotto. 186 pages. hardcover. Cover photography by R. Vishniac. keywords: Latin America Peru Literature Translated Jewish. DESCRIPTION - This remarkable documentary novel is set in Peru. The time, the early 1930's. The characters, a small community of Jews trying to survive within a gentile culture. Don Jacobo Lerner, an immigrant from czarist Russia, lies on his bed the night before his death and tries to piece his life together. Rendered through the eyes of friends and family, through newspaper articles and cultural announcements, and most memorably, through the eyes of his bastard son Efraim whom he has never met, this novel attempts to recreate Lerner's fragmented world. Although Lerner himself is never once described physically, he looms as a character of universal significance, a tragic and almost heroic parody of the Wandering Jew. inventory #4165. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 2nd Edition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Very Good -. Normal wear; a decent readable copy. Book.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Sue�o del insomnio: Dream of Insomnia (Bilingual edition). Book.

Hard Cover. Second Printing. 186pp. A novel about a Russian Jew who immigrates to Peru in the 1930's. Very good. DJ is good, slightly frayed. (loc 533).

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Trade Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in dust jacket. Clean text - NO writing, NO highlighting to text. Very good. Some light surface wear to dust jacket. VG/VG-.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus. Published by Persea Books, 1985. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new, with some shelf/edgewear. Spotting along page ends.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 172 pages; A deep compassionate portrait of a young man born of two distinct and often conflicting worlds. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine copy in hardcover with fine jacket. Inscribed by Goldemberg. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover, mass market paperback. White pictorial covers with black lettering. Copyright page dated 1978. 208 pages. Very good condition. Covers clean, crisp. Binding stiff. Pages toned but clean and free of marks.

Condition: Good. Solid and unmarked, mild reading wear. Fast Shipping - Safe and Secure Bubble Mailer.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: 1990. First Edition. Softcover. First edition Magazine printed wrappers [about about 8.5" x 11"], saddle-stapled. Some text in English, some in Spanish [sometimes the same text is in both languages, but some of the text appears only in Spanish]. Winter 1990 issue is 24 pages, with a mailing label on the rear cover. See photos mag7.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. Mestre, Juan Carlos (illustrator).

Condition: New. Mestre, Juan Carlos (illustrator).