{"product_id":"red-shoes-for-rachel-three-novellas-9780815610878","title":"Red Shoes for Rachel: Three Novellas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed Shoes for Rachel\u003c\/i\u003e, Sandler's award-winning collection of three novellas, features tightly wound tales that seamlessly incorporate diverse genres, including magic realism, satire, and autobiography, and profound psychological profiles to create touching portrayals of the human experience. Zumoff's translation of Sandler's original Yiddish collection makes the J. I. Segal Award-winning volume available to English readers for the first time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the collection's eponymous novella, Rachel, a daughter of Holocaust survivors raised in Brighton Beach, encounters a Moldovan Jewish immigrant divorcee as she is tending to her disabled, elderly mother along the Coney Island boardwalk. As the two begin a relationship, the story reveals their past and the commonalities between two children of Holocaust survivors raised in very different societies. In the novella Karolina Bugaz, an exhausted Moldovan Jewish immigrant architect leaves his wife and newly religious son behind to go on a cruise to a mysterious island, which may just be a direct voyage through space and time into his past. In the volume's most acclaimed story, \u003ci\u003eHalfway Down the Road Back to You\u003c\/i\u003e, an elderly Moldovan Holocaust survivor in Israel separated from her children by emigration must confront her past as her failing mind begins to blur the boundaries between her daily life and the horrors of war sixty years before. The novella was adapted by the author into an acclaimed play, which has been staged in the United States, Belgium, and France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Boris Sandler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.77h x 6.06w x 0.59d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815610878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoris Sandler \u003c\/b\u003eis one of the leading Yiddish fiction writers of the postwar generation and has received\u003cbr\u003eevery major contemporary Yiddish literary award for his work. He served as the editor-in-chief of the \u003ci\u003eYiddish Forward \u003c\/i\u003efrom 1998 to 2016. Sandler's work has been translated into English, Hebrew, Russian, German, and Romanian. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA prolific translator of Yiddish literature, \u003cb\u003eBarnett Zumoff\u003c\/b\u003e has published twenty-four volumes of poetry and prose translation. In addition, he is a professor of endocrinology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40265610788979,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_69811387-1810-475a-bfe3-65c4d7aad1cd.jpg?v=1657721755","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/red-shoes-for-rachel-three-novellas-9780815610878","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}