Aunt Esther
Abandoned by his mother, eight-year-old Avrum Leib is left dependent on the charity of poor Jews. Drifting away, he lives in the sewers of Lodz, joining a bizarre netherworld of prostitutes, thieves and wandering Jews. Poland on the verge of World War II, in social turmoil, is depicted pungently and ironically. The underclass has a single weapon against aggression, destitution and abuse – vulgar, trenchant humor. It is this quality which gives Avrum-Leib’s odyssey its infectious charm.
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French, German, Polish
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French
Paris, Albin Michel, 1996 -
Polish
Lodz, Oficyna Bibliofilow, 1996 -
German
Nurtingen, Sindlinger-Burchartz, 1996
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| Title | Aunt Esther |
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| Writer's Last Name | Eckstein |
| Writer's First Name | Arieh |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher (Hebrew) | Keter |
| No. Pages | 248pp. |
| Book title - Hebrew (phonetic) | Doda Esther |
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“ A genuine novel, tender and scandalous, poetic and cruel, whose picturesque, superabundant, over-populated style, has real charm. ”
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“ There is primal beauty and wicked humor, with the qualities of both Bashevis Singer's devils and Babel's Odessa, but unlike either one.”