{"product_id":"the-magician-of-lublin-9780141197609","title":"The Magician of Lublin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eYasha 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize for Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA spellbinder as clever as Scheherazade; he arrests the reader at once, transports him to a far place and a far, improbable time and does not let him go until the end * New Republic *\u003cbr\u003eSinger writes with a love and passion unequalled in contemporary fiction * Washington Post *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732440297815,"sku":"9780141197609","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141197609.jpg?v=1719996884","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-magician-of-lublin-9780141197609","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}