The Messiah of Stockholm

by Cynthia Ozick

Overview

A small group of Jews weave a web of intrigue and fantasy around a book reviewer's contention that he is the son of Borus Schultz, the legendary Polish writer killed by the Nazis before his magnum opus, THE MESSIAH, could be brought to light.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780394756943
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/12/1988
Series:	Vintage International
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 7.92(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Cynthia Ozick, a recipient of a Lannan Award for fiction and a National Book Critics Circle winner for essays, is the author of Trust, The Messiah of Stockholm, The Shawl, and The Puttermesser Papers. She lives in New York.

Editorial Reviews

"A truly intriguing mystery...Ozick brings off effects comparable to those of Isaac Bashevis Singer, who can persuade the reader to believe the incredible" — D. J. Enright, The New York Review of Books

"An arresting, original puzzle of a novel...The orphan desperate to know his father, a familiar theme of fairy tales and myths, is made magical once again." — People

"A spellbinding novel...The Messiah of Stockholm reaffirms Cynthia Ozick's position as one of the finest and most imaginative writers of our time." — St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Intrigues and entertains...weaves a tale that is richly, intensely imagined." — Anne Tyler, The New Republic

"A striking book...Ozick writes with ferocious imaginative drive."

— Boston Globe

"A magician...a literary alchemist...a brilliant wordsmith."

— USA Today

From the Publisher

ndeming, perhaps overly intellectual and certainly eccentric, is the Monday book reviewer for a Stockholm daily. He is also the self-proclaimed son of Bruno Schulz, a Polish writer who was executed by the Nazis before his last novel, The Messiah, could be published. When a manuscript of The Messiah mysteriously appears in Stockholm, in the possession of Schulz's ``daughter,'' Lars's circumscribed world of paper, apartment, and favorite bookstore turns upside down, catapulting him into a whirlwind of dream, magic, and illusion. Ozick's linguistic agility and inventive imagination, while uniquely her own, remind one of Isaac B. Singer at his inventive best. Enthusiastically recommended for general fiction collections. Marcia G. Fuchs, Guilford Free Lib., Ct.

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