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The Magic Barrel
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The Magic Barrel

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‘The experience of reading The Magic Barrel was akin to a rite of initiation… The stories settled swiftly and deeply into my consciousness; now that I have read them, I cannot believe there was ever a time I had not’ Jhumpa Lahiri

A matchmaker finds love for a would-be rabbi; a shopkeeper dies because he cannot afford a doctor; a little girl steals candy; an angel visits a grieving tailor. Through Malamud’s great gifts as a writer - humour and profound concern for the matter of human life - he transmutes the particular struggles of everyday sufferers into a strange poetry.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Country
United Kingdom
Date
1 June 2014
Pages
176
ISBN
9780099436980

‘The experience of reading The Magic Barrel was akin to a rite of initiation… The stories settled swiftly and deeply into my consciousness; now that I have read them, I cannot believe there was ever a time I had not’ Jhumpa Lahiri

A matchmaker finds love for a would-be rabbi; a shopkeeper dies because he cannot afford a doctor; a little girl steals candy; an angel visits a grieving tailor. Through Malamud’s great gifts as a writer - humour and profound concern for the matter of human life - he transmutes the particular struggles of everyday sufferers into a strange poetry.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Country
United Kingdom
Date
1 June 2014
Pages
176
ISBN
9780099436980