{"product_id":"the-airship-incantations-9781573661874","title":"The Airship: Incantations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA hypnotic tale of a Jewish refugee from Europe and his three years stranded aboard the \u003ci\u003eVasari\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Airship\u003c\/i\u003e is the hypnotic fictional biography of Nathan Cohen, who is deported from the United States in 1912 under the Alien Act and who spends the first years of World War I on the passenger ship \u003ci\u003eVasari\u003c\/i\u003e, shuttled between the United States and Argentina. Newspapers call him 'The Wandering Jew' and 'The Man Without a Country,' speculating he will spend the rest of his life at sea.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Airship\u003c\/i\u003e is the hypnotic fictional biography of Nathan Cohen, who emigrates from Bauska, in the Russian Pale of Settlement, to Las Pampas, Argentina, and finally to the United States, where he suffers a breakdown and is deported under the Alien Act in 1912, just before the outbreak of WWI. Newspapers call him 'The Wandering Jew' and 'The Man Without a Country,' speculating he will spend the rest of his life at sea.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Adam Tipps Weinstein provides a wise, rich, nuanced, and mischievous account of Cohen's emigration from Bauska, in the Russian Pale of Settlement, to Las Pampas, Argentina, from one tragedy (the Jewish diaspora) to another (the Shoah of the conquest of the Americas). \u003ci\u003eThe Airship\u003c\/i\u003e is finally Cohen's wish for a new line of flight, which he realizes when he launches his beloved Laika, aboard a scavenged hot-air balloon.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e From one tragedy (the Jewish diaspora) to another (the Shoah of the conquest of the Americas), Adam Tipps Weinstein provides a wise, rich, nuanced, and mischievous retelling of Cohen's travels, and his wish for a new line of flight, which he realizes when he launches his beloved Laika, aboard a scavenged hot-air balloon.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Told through a series of incantations-spells, songs, folk tales, ghosts, charms-this entrancing book traces Cohen's journey across time and a great expanse of geography. The concepts of home and homeland are stretched until they break. Is there such a thing as home? How do we know when we have arrived? \u003ci\u003eThe Airship\u003c\/i\u003e evokes these paradoxes of location, nationality, faith, belonging, and identity in a bordered and borderless world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Airship: Incantations\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling book of historiographic omniscience that rereads the past through research often exposed quite casually to its readers. Weinstein fixes on the page a method of understanding the past by inserting imaginative dreamscapes as if on microscope slides between the words and sentences of primary and secondary sources.\" - Brian Kiteley, author of \u003ci\u003eThe River Gods \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e I Know Many Songs, but I Cannot Sing\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515869520215,"sku":"9781573661874","price":14.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-airship-incantations-9781573661874","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}