num_pages: 320
description: Singer's people shimmer with life, alive in worlds within worlds. And their creator can take you into each of those worlds on a journey only a true magician can make possible.With astonishing clarity, you can share the sights that fate entrusts to one pair of eyes - the eyes of a master story-teller. And through those eyes you see the devout young husband, praying fervently on Yom Kippur, distracted by thoughts of his wife and unable to concentrate until word reaches him that she has run away. Or enter the world of Hasidic piety in the guide of a person so exotic you barely believe in his existence. See the raffish world of the Warsaw intelligentsia . . . and the alienated worlds of those souls transplanted from their homes into New York and Buenos Aires.Come join this weaver of worlds. Share the inhabitant's obsessions with sex and salvation. Be pursued by demons and nudniks. Come inside absurd worlds made marvellous.
language: English
title: A Friend of Kafka
titlecomplete: A Friend of Kafka
genres: Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, Short Stories, Fiction, Jewish, Poland
ratings_count: 491
publisher: Fawcett