Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum
1st Edition
Published on 19. September 2013
244 pages
978-1-84771-776-4 (ISBN)
Description
A lively novel which is a retro epic in the genre of magic realism. Among the contents are the interwar cabaret scene in Munich and Berlin, seen through the eyes of a seven-foot Jewish giantess. The tapestry of Jewish culture, evoked through food, theatre, clothes and custom, at the point at which it is about to unravel.
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Content
- Intro
- Prologue
- bone girl
- Storm
- Esau
- bats and peacocks
- grandmother Brecht takes the upper hand
- ant men/moth women
- malkeston's
- cooking up a storm.
- snowflakes & gingerbread hearts
- the Jugendstil room
- bakery of lace
- suiting myself
- the house of clocks
- theater hoffmann
- ghost boy
- under violet skies
- spitting cherrystones
- stockings and stars
- Green Phoenix
- mrs kowalke's wedding dress
- potatoes & pomegranates
- the city of confiscated memory
- the banquet of Esther Rosenbaum
- clocks and angels epilogue
- Acknowledgements
