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The fragmented life of Don Jacobo Lerner : [a novel] / Isaac Goldemberg ; translated from the Spanish by Robert S. Picciotto ; introduction by Ilan Stavans.
LIBRA - Special PQ8498.17.O4 V513 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldemberg, Isaac, 1945-
- Series:
- Jewish Latin America
- Standardized Title:
- Vida a plazos de don Jacobo Lerner. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Goldemberg, Isaac, 1945---Translations into English.
- Goldemberg, Isaac.
- Goldemberg, Isaac, 1945-.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 213 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- University of New Mexico Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- Published in 1977 to great critical acclaim, this remarkable novel is set in the 1930s within a small community of Jews in Peru. Don Jacobo Lerner, an immigrant from czarist Russia, lies on his deathbed trying to piece together his life. Told through the testimony of family and friends, through newspaper articles and cultural announcements, and, most memorably, in the haunting words of his bastard son, Efrain, the details of Jacobo Lerner's fragmented world emerge. Finally, Lerner becomes a character of universal significance, a tragic but heroic prototype of the Wandering Jew.
- Notes:
- Translation of Vida a plazos de don Jacobo Lerner.
- Subtitle from cover.
- ISBN:
- 0826320740
- 9780826320742
- OCLC:
- 40105342
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