Title: Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
Subtitle: A Novel
Description: Summer, sweltering, 1996. A book warehouse in western Massachusetts. A man at the beginning of his adult life -- and the end of his career rope -- becomes involved with a woman, a language, and a great lie that will define his future. Most auspiciously of all, he runs across Itsik Malpesh, a ninetysomething Russian immigrant who claims to be the last Yiddish poet in America. When a set of accounting ledgers in which Malpesh has written his memoirs surfaces -- twenty-two volumes brimming with adventure, drama, deception, passion, and wit -- the young man is compelled to translate them, telling Malpesh's story as his own life unfolds, and bringing together two paths that coincide in shocking and unexpected ways.--from Publisher description (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2007049787-d.html).
Subjects: Yiddish Poets, Jews, Fiction, Translators, Russian Jews, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Jews, fiction, Authors, fiction, United states, fiction, Russia (federation), fiction, Fiction, general
Places: United States