Petty Business

AvYirmi Pinkus

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art

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As they do every year, Yosef Zinman, a well-to-do Tel Aviv grocer, and his beloved wife Zippi plan a vacation during the holiday of Sukkot to Seefeld in the mountainous Tirols region of Austria. This year, Zippi decides to invite her sister, who has fallen on hard times with a failing perfumery business. Soon, more and more relatives join in on the trip, and the expenses quickly begin to add up. To gather all the funds needed, the family goes into the business of inexpensive clothing and fashion shows for workers’ unions. The summerpromises handsome revenues, but as the Zinman family nears their goal, they become increasingly vexed by their competing interests. A tragic-comic novel in its essence, Petty Business chronicles a year inone family's life, set against the backdrop of Tel Aviv’s rapidly changing global economy in the early 1990s. Pinkus’s biting critique of Tel Aviv’s provincial character and its residents’ shtetl mentality is delivered with a perfect combination of wit, humor, and tender pathos.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-11-24
Mått:151 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:515 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Syracuse University Press
ISBN:9780815635512
Översättare:Fallenberg, Evan, Greenspan, Yardenne

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Yirmi Pinkus is an Israeli writer and illustrator living in Tel Aviv. In 2010, he won thePrime Minister’s Award for his achievements both as a novelist and as a comics artist. Petty Business was short-listed for the 2013 Sapir prize.

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A very funny yet tragic book, a unique work in the history of Israeli literature and one of only a handful ofworks that relates to the great humoristic tradition of Eastern European Jewish literature in Hebrew and Yiddish. Highly recommended.' - Yaron Peleg, Kennedy Leigh Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Studies, University of Cambridge 'The first few episodes of Petty Business bring Honoré de Balzac’s César Birotteau to mind . . . but Pinkus chooses wisely not to show its protagonists in their fall. . . . [It] is not the grand novel about the end of Israeli petit bourgeoisie but a depiction of its last few moments of grace, and it is a wonderful depiction.' - Motti Fogel, Achbar Ha’Ir '[A] decisive literary victory, a real celebration . . . the precise observations of Philip Roth, the grotesque wildness of Hanoch Levin, and the sharp melancholy of Ephraim Kishon. . . . A humorous novel that is motivated by empathy rather than sarcasm and manages to be both entertaining and deeply moving.' - Omri Herzog, Ha’aretz 'A refreshing, realistic portrayal of the city of Tel Aviv and a rare depiction of middle-aged, petty bourgeois characters who don’t usually findtheir way into Israeli fiction' - Philip Hollander, assistant professor, Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison