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The voice of Mendl, the novel's 12 year-old narrator, is captured by this simple translation. Mendl's impoverished and dysfunctional family struggles to survive in a nameless Polish provincial town. As Mendl journeys to adulthood, Perle captures the complex interplay between Christians and Jews, town and country, dream and reality.Deshell, Maier is the author of 'Everyday Jews Scenes from a Vanished Life', published 2007 under ISBN 9780300116373 and ISBN 0300116373.
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