{"product_id":"9781472157430-before-all-the-world","title":"Before All The World","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat does it mean to remember the past while still imagining the future? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA mesmerizing story of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003etwo Jewish refugees and a Black writer - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethree lost souls\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewho meet \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ein 1930s Philadelphia \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand together seize new life while haunted by the old.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e mesmeric, enrapturing read' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eEimear McBride\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautiful and original'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eColm Tóibín\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In startling language filled with the flavor of Yiddish's combination words, [\u003ci\u003eBefore All the World\u003c\/i\u003e] moves forward and back and forward again in a dreamlike trance that acknowledges how the worst suffering exists side by side with the tender beauty of memory, friendship, words and the silences of recognition' \u003cb\u003eIlana Masad, \u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eBefore All the World\u003c\/i\u003e is poetry as it should be: deliberate while feeling casual, a game with words that is at once playful and deadly serious (sometimes by turns, sometimes truly simultaneously) . It swallowed me up, and then all at once, a word or a phrase would reach me like a bolt of lightning, charring and electrifying me all through' \u003cb\u003eJo Niederhoff, \u003ci\u003eSeattle Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Resembles something by Joyce or Samuel Beckett . A highly original and powerful tale told in defiance of the world's darkness' \u003cb\u003eStephanie Cross, \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eBefore All the World\u003c\/i\u003e leaves you breathless . [Rothman-Zecher] has found a way to teach us how to find out what is most important about ourselves by losing himself in this novel of ingenious daring imagination and allowing us to accompany him on his ride. It is a masterful accomplishment that remains with the reader long after finishing this brilliant work' \u003cb\u003eElaine Margolin, \u003ci\u003eWomen in Judaism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An emotionally evocative exploration of the impossibility of escaping trauma, yet finding hope nevertheless when all seems destroyed' \u003cb\u003eHannah Srour-Zackon, \u003ci\u003eThe Canadian Jewish News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'At its core, \u003ci\u003eBefore All the World\u003c\/i\u003e considers one essential question: what does it mean to remember the past while still imagining the future? . Its most striking accomplishment is its invitation to the reader to become a part of the novel's chorus. What will you do, it asks, now that you've read this story?' \u003cb\u003eAdina Applebaum, \u003ci\u003eJewish Book Council\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Original, daring, experimental, moving, poignant, engaging . With shades of Tony Kushner and Cynthia Ozick . \u003ci\u003eBefore All the World\u003c\/i\u003e understands how our worlds are made by words, and in the altering of the latter we may as yet redeem the former' \u003cb\u003eEd Simon, \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e, 'Most Anticipated Books of 2022'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Rich and engrossing . A powerful story, brilliantly told' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A one-of-a-kind creation' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'I do not believe that all the world is darkness'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the swirl of Prohibition-era Philadelphia, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a former speakeasy called Cricket's, a bar that welcomes, as Charles says in his secondhand Yiddish, \u003ci\u003efeygeles\u003c\/i\u003e. Leyb is startled to hear his native tongue spoken by this beautiful Black man from the Seventh Ward whose life he will come to share.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeyb is haunted by memories from before he came to America, growing up in the shtetl of Zatelsk, where one day every last person - except the ten non-Jews, a young poet named Gittl, and he himself - was taken to the forest and killed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlowing with a surge of language and synchrony, Gittl and Leyb are reunited - surrounded by the murmur of angelic voices - and together with Charles they each grapple with how to face, and sieze, whatever future lies ahead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarried along by questions of survival and hope, \u003ci\u003eBefore All the World\u003c\/i\u003e lays bare the impossibility of escaping trauma, the necessity of believing in a better way, 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41271095230561,"sku":"9781472157430","price":8.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29640650.jpg?v=1725625472","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781472157430-before-all-the-world","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}