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4/27/2009 4:40 PM UTC
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6/29/2008 4:41 PM UTC
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Kate Sullivan interviews Francine Prose, the author of fifteen books of fiction, including "Blue Angel" -- a finalist for the National Book Award. Her newest book, "Anne Frank: the Book, the Life, the Afterlife," launches this week. Her novel, Goldengrove, was published in September 2008. She is the president of PEN American Center. She lives in New York City. ========================= In "Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife," Francine Prose, who is author of "Reading Like a Writer," explores the artistry, ambition, and enduring influence of Anne Frank’s classic, "The Diary of a Young Girl." Approved by both the Anne Frank House Foundation in Amsterdam and the Anne Frank-Fonds in Basel, run by the Frank family, this work of literary criticism unravels the complex, fascinating story of the diary and effectively makes the case for it being a work of art from a precociously gifted writer. ====================== WordSmitten. www.wordsmitten.com www.twitter.com/wordsmitten
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SONGS FOR THE
BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER
A Novel
By Peter Manseau
“A terrific book with a believable protagonist who’s given ample room to tell his tale.” –Kirkus Reviews
“Rooted in the sharp, bittersweet Yiddish tradition reminiscent of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Manseau’s thrilling tale of secrets and revelations captures the diversity among Jews, then and now, in shtetl, city, and kibbutz, and the elemental meaning of bashert, or destiny.” –Booklist, starred review
From Peter Manseau, acclaimed author of Vows: The Story of Priest, a Nun, and Their Son, selected as one of the best memoirs of the year by the editors of Amazon.com, and co-author of Killing the Buddha, selected as one of Publishers Weekly’s best religion books of the year, comes the debut novel, SONGS FOR THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER (Free Press; September 9, 2008; $25.00).
Selected for the September 2008 Indie Next List and as a Holiday 2008 Discover Great New Writers pick by Barnes & Noble, hailed by Kirkus Reviews as a “terrific book” and by Booklist, in a starred review, as “a thrilling tale of secrets and revelations,” and now, Short Listed for the John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize from the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction in New York, SONGS FOR THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER is the untold story of the last Yiddish poet in America – the bad-tempered but charmingly eloquent Itsik Malpesh – and his 21-year-old non-Jewish translator.
Telling Itsik’s life story as the translator’s life unfolds, SONGS FOR THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER brings together two paths that coincide in surprising, unexpected ways. Steeped in Jewish history, SONGS FOR THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER recalls Malpesh’s birth during the infamous Easter Sunday pogrom in Kishinev, Russia. His mother later tells him that it was only the sight of a woman in labor that turned a band of attackers away. His birth was also witnessed by Sasha Bimko, the four-year-old butcher's daughter. When the pogrom ends and the butcher is found dead, Sasha and her mother leave town, and a lifetime of wanting begins for young Itsik.
Following Itsik’s path as he flees Europe for America, SONGS FOR THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER shares the immigrant’s plight as young Itsik lands in New York City. He falls in with elements of the Jewish underworld, working in the hellish garment factories of New York's Lower East Side, and befriends a crowd of “Sweat Shop Poets.” Here, Itsik finds success as a poet, and, in his first reading at an important café on the East Side, Itsik sings an ode to his beloved butcher’s daughter – only to find her, waiting in the crowd.
What follows is a love affair for the ages – of two souls long-destined to meet. As Itsik and Sasha wrestle with the contemporary challenges of their affair and he struggles to make ends meet for their growing family, the demand for Yiddish writing (and thus, his artful poems) falls off at a sharp decline – and Itsik finds himself scribing for a sinking ship. Along the way, SONGS FOR THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER follows Itsik’s journey of faith – namely, losing it in the Jewish God and developing a deep distrust of Christians. Since the day of his birth, experience taught that the former provides no protection and the latter threatens at every turn.
In a life-altering decision, Itsik invests in the translation services of a man betraying the Yiddish language – a Christian convert who is translating the Bible into Yiddish with missionary zeal. Turning over his and Sasha’s life savings for the price of translation, Itsik becomes entangled with a man that he’ll later do anything to forget. This decision unravels his relationship with Sasha and, once again, Itsik Malpesh finds himself living without his beloved butcher’s daughter.
A wise and warm look at the constant surprises and ineluctable ravages of time, SONGS FOR THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER takes a surprising twist – and, at the end of his life, Itsik Malpesh is once again taken by the hands of fate. His young translator, himself a Catholic with no seeming connection to the life of the aging poet, brings forward an old letter in need of translation – and, in reading it, Itsik discovers his butcher’s daughter is not so very far away as he thought.
A book about religion, love, and typesetting—how one passion can be used to goad and thwart another—and most of all, about how faith in the power of words can survive even the death of a language.
About the Author:
PETER MANSEAU is the author of Vows and co-author of Killing the Buddha. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. A founding editor of the award-winning webzine KillingTheBuddha.com, he is now the editor of Search, The Magazine of Science, Religion, and Culture. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Washington, D.C., where he studies religion and teaches writing at Georgetown University.
About the Book:
SONGS FOR THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER: A Novel
Publication Date: September 9, 2008
Free Press Hardcover; $25.00/384 Pages/ISBN: 1-4165-3870-4
Original Air Date: 9/7/2008 8:00 PM UTC
Date / Time: 9/5/2008 1:51 AM UTC
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