Seventh Beggar Pap

Title: Seventh Beggar Pap

Author: Pearl Abraham

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789029075688

Condition: Good

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Description:

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The seventh beggar
Pearl Abraham
Razor-sharp and brilliant story
Joel grows up in an Orthodox Jewish community in New York. Despite his father's warnings, he becomes obsessed with the ancient tales of legendary kabbalist and storyteller Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. In his search for the mysterious world of golems from these stories, he discovers the power, and the dangers, of the creative imagination.
Inspired by Nachman's unfinished story The Seven Beggars, Pearl Abraham intertwines Joel's life with Nachman's ancient world of forgotten rituals. Joel, his quick-witted sister Ada, and the brilliant student JakobJoel embark on a quest to realize their dreams, which takes them from the Orthodox Jewish community to the world of artificial intelligence, and from New York to Palestine.
Pearl Abraham wrote a compelling novel with The Seventh Beggar that crosses literary boundaries through the daring mixture of myth, dream and reality. Through her enormous narrative power she succeeds in moving and inspiring with an enchanting story about courage and self-development.
Pearl Abraham (Israel, 1960) grew up in an orthodox Jewish family, but decided to leave the Hasidic community. In her debut novel, the bestseller Vreugde der wet (Joy of the Law), she described the Hasidic world for the first time from a female perspective. This was followed by the novel Afstand van Amerika (Distance from America) and the collection of stories she compiled, Een sterk vrouw, wie zal haar (A Strong Woman, Who Will Find Her). Pearl Abraham lives in New York.
'Pearl Abraham's The Seventh Beggar is a razor-sharp and brilliant addition to Nachman of Bratslav's most enigmatic tale. Miraculously, Pearl Abraham succeeds in breathing new life into one of the most disturbing stories in the Hasidic tradition.'
The Seventh Beggar/Pearl Abraham
Paperback – 350 pages – € 18.50 – ISBN 90 290 7568 6
Bound - 598 pp. - € 29.50 – ISBN 90 290 7598 8
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November 2004