num_pages: 208
description: Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assistant who travels with him and a woman in every town. Now though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escape - from his marriage, his homeland and the last tendrils of his father's religion. Set in Warsaw and the shtetls of the 1870s, Isaac Bashevis Singer's second novel is a haunting psychological portrait of a man's flight from love.
language: English
title: The Magician of Lublin
titlecomplete: The Magician of Lublin
genres: Fiction, Polish Literature, Jewish, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, Novels, Poland, Historical Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 3253
places: Warsaw, Piaski, Lublin
awards: awardedAt: -189360000000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd