Songs for the Butcher's Daughter

Peter Manseau

RRP: £14.99

Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER

Publication Date : 02/02/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

A young graduate takes a job in a Yiddish warehouse, and meets self-proclaimed Great Yiddish Poet Itsik Malpesh. Finding 22 journals chronicling his 90-year life, he sets about translating them, and reveals a story spanning the entire 20th century.

Publisher's description:

An immigrant's epic saga, an unlikely friendship, and a love story that spans the entire twentieth century, Songs for the Butcher's Daughter is one of the most captivating, breathtaking and heart-wrenching books of the year.

ISBN: 9781847373120