Oedipus in Brooklyn and other stories / Blume Lempel ; translated from the Yiddish by Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lempel, Blume, author.

Contributor:

Cassedy, Ellen, translator.

Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron, translator.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections. English

Language:

English

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Lempel, Blume--Translations into English.

Lempel, Blume.

Short stories, Yiddish--Translations into English.

Short stories, Yiddish.

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

xvi, 224 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Simsbury, Connecticut : Mandel Vilar Press ; Takoma Park, Maryland : Dryad Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Blume Lempel is a fearless storyteller whose imagination skillfully moves between the realistic and the fantastic, the lyrical and the philosophical. Her subjects like her settings -- Paris, Poland, Brooklyn, Tel Aviv, California -- range widely. A Holocaust survivor speaks to the shadows in her garden; a pious old woman imagines romance; a New York subway commuter forges a bond with a homeless woman; and in the title story, a mother is drawn into a transgressive relationship with her blind son. Lempel's narratives are masterpieces of poetic imagery and startling modernist touches, suffused with an abiding compassions"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

The first eleven stories in this volume were published in Yiddish in "A rege fun emes" (A moment of truth), by Blume Lempel (Tel Aviv: I.L. Peretz Publishing House, 1981). The second eleven stories were published in Yiddish in "Balade fun a kholem" (Ballad of a dream), by Blume Lempel (Tel Aviv: Israel Book Publishing House, 1986).

Other Format:

Online version: Lempel, Blume, author. Oedipus in Brooklyn & other stories

ISBN:

9781942134251

1942134258

9781942134213

1942134215

OCLC:

945949050

Publisher Number:

99969654216