Before All The World
Autor Moriel Rothman-Zecheren Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 oct 2022
'I do not believe that all the world is darkness'
In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a former speakeasy called Cricket's, a bar that welcomes, as Charles says in his secondhand Yiddish, feygeles. Leyb is startled; fourteen years in amerike has taught him that his native tongue is not known beyond his people. And yet here is suave Charles, fingers stained with ink, an easy manner with the barkeep, a Black man from the Seventh Ward, speaking to him in Jewish; Charles, who calls him 'Lion', and with whom he will fall in love.
But Leyb is haunted by memories of life before, on another continent and the village of his birth where, one day, everyone except the ten non-Jews, a young poet named Gittl and he himself, was taken to the forest and killed.
Leyb's two lifetimes come together when Gittl arrives in Philadelphia, thanks to a poem she wrote and the intervention of a shadowy character known only as the Baroness. And surrounding Gittl are malokhim, the talkative spirits of her siblings.
Flowing and churning with a glorious surge of language, Before All the World lays bare the impossibility of escaping trauma, the necessity of believing in a better way ahead, and the power that comes from our responsibility to the future. It asks, in the voices of its angels, the most essential question: What do you intend to do before all the world?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781472157423
ISBN-10: 1472157427
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 134 x 214 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Corsair
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1472157427
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 134 x 214 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Corsair
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
'Evocative, inventive, vivid and strange Before All the World is a mesmeric, enrapturing read'
Before All the World is beautiful and original. It is also strange, arresting, high-risk. Very quickly this novel starts to work on the mind, making itself felt in complex and powerful and visionary ways, led by rhythm in the language and the urge to make that language new
Before All the World startles and swirls, and makes fresh the experience of language itself. It has it all: a gripping story, an original structure and a tender, ghostly glow
Original, daring, experimental, moving, poignant, engaging . . . With shades of Tony Kushner and Cynthia Ozick . . . Before All the World understands how our worlds are made by words, and in the altering of the latter we may as yet redeem the former
A one-of-a-kind creation
Rich and engrossing . . . A powerful story, brilliantly told
Most closely resembles something by Joyce or Beckett . . . A highly original and powerful tale told in defiance of the world's darkness. A highly original and powerful tale told in defiance of the world's darkness
Before All the World is a song about survival and a refusal to be erased. Daringly crafted and poetically told, this novel is a celebration of Moriel Rothman-Zecher's extraordinary talent, compassion, and love for humanity. To read Before All the World is to abandon all of our expectations and privileges so that the torch of curiosity and the beauty of words can lead us to unexpected places, where we can see ourselves in those whom we might have considered the Other
'Before All The World is astonishing, spellbinding and poetic. It is a groundbreaking and awe-inspiring song of resilience, memory, identity and love. I can't recall the last time I was so mesmerised by a work. The way the reader is carried by its characters, transported by its language, enveloped by its many worlds is stunningly beautiful. Simply, it's a masterpiece -one of those rare books that upon reaching its last words you immediately need to start reading again!'
This is brilliant. I do love when authors do cool things with language (see also Fiebre Tropical by Julián Delgado Lopera). This is more than pure wordsmithing, however, as it is also very evocative and quite intensely emotional, perhaps even more so due to Rothman-Zecher's language mastery. Could not stop reading
This is a tale flowing with Yiddish, a language that, for most of us, is an unknown tongue. Told from the perspective of folks living in Philadelphia, it surprises, disturbs, comforts and, yes, it even entertains. The story is poignant. The narrative pure and moving. It's like sitting in on a conversation between geniuses, who have lots to say about life and it's challenges, in a language you do not understand yet somehow it makes sense. Before All the World is a real treat for the heart as well as the mind
[Before All the World] offers readers characters who defy the binaries of western colonialism, characters who defy the borders of established language, who are both mourning and joyful, who are willing to question what they have to offer, what they will do as they live their lives before all the world
At its core, Before All the World considers one essential question: what does it mean to remember the past while still imagining the future? . . . Its most striking accomplishment is its invitation to the reader to become a part of the novel's chorus. What will you do, it asks, now that you've read this story?
In startling language filled with the flavour of Yiddish's combination words, [Before All the World] moves forward and back and forward again in a dreamlike trance that acknowledges how the worst suffering exists side by side with the tender beauty of memory, friendship, words and the silences of recognition
Boldly imagined . . . Before All the World may be set in the 1930s, but it feels as though it is outside of time . . . Rothman-Zecher has uncovered something extraordinary: trauma itself is a kind of translation. It's a recreation of events that becomes more removed as time goes on, and language is our only guide
An emotionally evocative exploration of the impossibility of escaping trauma, yet finding hope nevertheless when all seems destroyed
A highly original and powerful tale told in defiance of the world's darkness
Before All the World is poetry as it should be: deliberate while feeling casual, a game with words that is at once playful and deadly serious (sometimes by turns, sometimes truly simultaneously). Just as poetry ought to, it swallowed me up, and then all at once, a word or a phrase would reach me like a bolt of lightning, charring and electrifying me all through
'Before All the World is beautiful and original. Very quickly this novel starts to work on the mind, making itself felt in complex and powerful and visionary ways, led by the rhythm in the language and the urge to make that language new' Colm Tóibín, author of The Magician
'ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh'
'I do not believe that all the world is darkness'
In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles at a former speakeasy called Cricket's, a bar that welcomes, as Charles says in his secondhand Yiddish, feygeles. Leyb is startled; fourteen years in amerike has taught him that his native tongue is not known beyond his people. And yet here is suave Charles, fingers stained with ink, an easy manner with the barkeep, a Black man from the Seventh Ward, speaking to him in Jewish. Charles, who calls him 'Lion', and with whom he will fall in love.
But Leyb is haunted by memories of life before. Memories from another continent and the village where he was born. From Zatelsk where, one day, everyone except the ten non-Jews, a young poet named Gittl and he himself, was taken to the forest and killed.
When, miraculously, Gittl's poems bring her to Philadelphia, Leyb's two lifetimes come together. And surrounding the survivors, the talkative spirits of the littlest ones of Zatelsk who did not . . .
Flowing with a glorious surge of language, carried along by questions of survival and hope and the possibility of a better world, Before All the World lays bare the impossibility of escaping trauma, the necessity of believing in a better way ahead, and the power that comes from our responsibility to the future. It asks, in the voices of its angels, the most essential question: What do you intend to do before all the world?
Before All the World is beautiful and original. It is also strange, arresting, high-risk. Very quickly this novel starts to work on the mind, making itself felt in complex and powerful and visionary ways, led by rhythm in the language and the urge to make that language new
Before All the World startles and swirls, and makes fresh the experience of language itself. It has it all: a gripping story, an original structure and a tender, ghostly glow
Original, daring, experimental, moving, poignant, engaging . . . With shades of Tony Kushner and Cynthia Ozick . . . Before All the World understands how our worlds are made by words, and in the altering of the latter we may as yet redeem the former
A one-of-a-kind creation
Rich and engrossing . . . A powerful story, brilliantly told
Most closely resembles something by Joyce or Beckett . . . A highly original and powerful tale told in defiance of the world's darkness. A highly original and powerful tale told in defiance of the world's darkness
Before All the World is a song about survival and a refusal to be erased. Daringly crafted and poetically told, this novel is a celebration of Moriel Rothman-Zecher's extraordinary talent, compassion, and love for humanity. To read Before All the World is to abandon all of our expectations and privileges so that the torch of curiosity and the beauty of words can lead us to unexpected places, where we can see ourselves in those whom we might have considered the Other
'Before All The World is astonishing, spellbinding and poetic. It is a groundbreaking and awe-inspiring song of resilience, memory, identity and love. I can't recall the last time I was so mesmerised by a work. The way the reader is carried by its characters, transported by its language, enveloped by its many worlds is stunningly beautiful. Simply, it's a masterpiece -one of those rare books that upon reaching its last words you immediately need to start reading again!'
This is brilliant. I do love when authors do cool things with language (see also Fiebre Tropical by Julián Delgado Lopera). This is more than pure wordsmithing, however, as it is also very evocative and quite intensely emotional, perhaps even more so due to Rothman-Zecher's language mastery. Could not stop reading
This is a tale flowing with Yiddish, a language that, for most of us, is an unknown tongue. Told from the perspective of folks living in Philadelphia, it surprises, disturbs, comforts and, yes, it even entertains. The story is poignant. The narrative pure and moving. It's like sitting in on a conversation between geniuses, who have lots to say about life and it's challenges, in a language you do not understand yet somehow it makes sense. Before All the World is a real treat for the heart as well as the mind
[Before All the World] offers readers characters who defy the binaries of western colonialism, characters who defy the borders of established language, who are both mourning and joyful, who are willing to question what they have to offer, what they will do as they live their lives before all the world
At its core, Before All the World considers one essential question: what does it mean to remember the past while still imagining the future? . . . Its most striking accomplishment is its invitation to the reader to become a part of the novel's chorus. What will you do, it asks, now that you've read this story?
In startling language filled with the flavour of Yiddish's combination words, [Before All the World] moves forward and back and forward again in a dreamlike trance that acknowledges how the worst suffering exists side by side with the tender beauty of memory, friendship, words and the silences of recognition
Boldly imagined . . . Before All the World may be set in the 1930s, but it feels as though it is outside of time . . . Rothman-Zecher has uncovered something extraordinary: trauma itself is a kind of translation. It's a recreation of events that becomes more removed as time goes on, and language is our only guide
An emotionally evocative exploration of the impossibility of escaping trauma, yet finding hope nevertheless when all seems destroyed
A highly original and powerful tale told in defiance of the world's darkness
Before All the World is poetry as it should be: deliberate while feeling casual, a game with words that is at once playful and deadly serious (sometimes by turns, sometimes truly simultaneously). Just as poetry ought to, it swallowed me up, and then all at once, a word or a phrase would reach me like a bolt of lightning, charring and electrifying me all through
'Before All the World is beautiful and original. Very quickly this novel starts to work on the mind, making itself felt in complex and powerful and visionary ways, led by the rhythm in the language and the urge to make that language new' Colm Tóibín, author of The Magician
'ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh'
'I do not believe that all the world is darkness'
In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles at a former speakeasy called Cricket's, a bar that welcomes, as Charles says in his secondhand Yiddish, feygeles. Leyb is startled; fourteen years in amerike has taught him that his native tongue is not known beyond his people. And yet here is suave Charles, fingers stained with ink, an easy manner with the barkeep, a Black man from the Seventh Ward, speaking to him in Jewish. Charles, who calls him 'Lion', and with whom he will fall in love.
But Leyb is haunted by memories of life before. Memories from another continent and the village where he was born. From Zatelsk where, one day, everyone except the ten non-Jews, a young poet named Gittl and he himself, was taken to the forest and killed.
When, miraculously, Gittl's poems bring her to Philadelphia, Leyb's two lifetimes come together. And surrounding the survivors, the talkative spirits of the littlest ones of Zatelsk who did not . . .
Flowing with a glorious surge of language, carried along by questions of survival and hope and the possibility of a better world, Before All the World lays bare the impossibility of escaping trauma, the necessity of believing in a better way ahead, and the power that comes from our responsibility to the future. It asks, in the voices of its angels, the most essential question: What do you intend to do before all the world?