Full name: The Magician of Lublin: A Novel

Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer Year: 1959 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic Culture: Poland Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140048070 9780374532543 0140048073 0374532540

Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assistant who travels with him and a woman in every town. Now though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escape - from his marriage, his homeland and the last tendrils of his father's religion. Set in Warsaw and the shtetls of the 1870s, Isaac Bashevis Singer's second novel is a haunting psychological portrait of a man's flight from love. Similar books: Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Estate by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Family Moskat by Isaac Bashevis Singer Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer Enemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Certificate by Isaac Bashevis Singer A Beggar in Jerusalem by Elie Wiesel In the Beginning by Chaim Potok The Manor by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth Satan in Goray by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Oath by Elie Wiesel Landscape Painted with Tea by Milorad Pavic Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Room by Emma Donoghue Roots by Alex Haley Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder