Before All The World

Before All The World
Moriel Rothman-Zecher
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Hardback
h220 x 140mm - 336pg
12 Jan 2023 UK
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9781472157416
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' 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. They are at a speakeasy called Cricket' s, a bar that serves, as Charles says in his secondhand Yiddish, its 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 Jewish to a young man he will come to call Lion. Leyb is haunted by memories of his life before amerike, back home in his village of Zatelsk, where everyone except himself and a young girl called Gittl was taken to the forest and killed in a devastating pogrom. After all these years, Gittl makes her way to Philadelphia surrounded by the spirits of her dead siblings and, miraculously, finds Leyb. Flowing and churning and seething with a glorious surge of language, carried along by questions of survival and hope and the possibility of a better world, Moriel Rothman-Zecher' s 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?
' Evocative, inventive, vivid and strange Before All the World is a mesmeric, enrapturing read' * Eimear McBride * 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 -- Colm Toibin 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 -- Justin Torres, author of We the Animals 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 * The Millions, ' Most Anticipated Books of 2022' * A one-of-a-kind creation * Kirkus Reviews * Rich and engrossing . . . A powerful story, brilliantly told * Publishers Weekly, starred review * 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 -- Nguyen Phan Que Mai, author of The Mountains Sing ' 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!' * Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped *
Moriel Rothman-Zecher was born in Jerusalem and raised primarily in Yellow Springs, Ohio. His first novel, Sadness is a White Bird was published in 2019, for which he received the National Book Foundation' s ' 5 Under 35' Honour. It was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the winner of the Ohioana Book Award, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, the winner of the Cincinnati Books by the Banks Author Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction' s First Novel Prize. Moriel teaches Creative Writing at the University of Dayton and online through the Catapult Writing Program. He is the recipient of two MacDowell Colony Fellowship for Literature and is the Associate Editor of the anthology Kingdom of Olives and Ash (Edited by Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon; published by HarperCollins, May 2017). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Haaretz, Sojourners Magazine and elsewhere.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781472157416
Published: 12 Jan 2023
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Corsair
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Hardback
Height: 220mm
Width: 140mm
Spine: 34mm
Weight: 480g
Pages: 336

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