{"product_id":"book-of-paradise","title":"Book Of Paradise","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Electrifying…sparkles with Manger’s song and poetry, and is brilliantly layered with literary and folkloric references.” \u003ci\u003e— Tablet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There is something joyous about Manger’s playful language.” \u003ci\u003e— The Jewish Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe raucously witty Yiddish classic about a Jewish Paradise afflicted by very human temptations and pains — a delightful new translation perfect for fans of Michael Chabon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWitty, playful and slyly profound, this\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003estory of a young angel expelled from Paradise is the only novel by one of the great Yiddish writers, which was written just before the outbreak of World War II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a result of a crafty trick, the expelled angel retains the memory of his previous life when he’s born as a Yiddish-fluent baby mortal on Earth. The humans around him plead for details of that other realm, but the Paradise of his mischievous stories is far from their expectations: a world of drunken angels, lewd patriarchs and the very same divisions and temptations that shape the human world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished here in a lively new translation by Robert Adler Peckerar, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e is a comic masterpiece from poet-satirist Itzik Manger that irreverently blurs the boundaries between ancient and modern and sacred and profane, where the \u003ci\u003eshtetl\u003c\/i\u003e is heaven, and heaven is the \u003ci\u003eshtetl\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57306091454846,"sku":"NW9781782279259","price":10.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781782279259.jpg?v=1778516996","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/book-of-paradise","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}