The Family Moskat
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed but overall good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages holding well.
The Family Moskat is a sweeping historical saga that chronicles the decline of a wealthy Warsaw Jewish family across several generations, from the late nineteenth century through the outbreak of World War II. Isaac Bashevis Singer, writing originally in Yiddish and translated here by A.H. Gross, presents an intimate and richly textured portrait of Polish-Jewish life as it collides with modernity, assimilation, and the gathering darkness of Nazism. The novel unfolds through a vast ensemble of characters — merchants, intellectuals, romantics, and rebels — all orbiting the patriarch Meshulam Moskat, whose death sets the family adrift in a rapidly changing world. With the moral complexity and narrative grandeur of Tolstoy, Singer illustrates how tradition and identity fracture under the pressures of history, culminating in one of literature's most devastating and prophetic conclusions.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed but overall good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages holding well.
The Family Moskat is a sweeping historical saga that chronicles the decline of a wealthy Warsaw Jewish family across several generations, from the late nineteenth century through the outbreak of World War II. Isaac Bashevis Singer, writing originally in Yiddish and translated here by A.H. Gross, presents an intimate and richly textured portrait of Polish-Jewish life as it collides with modernity, assimilation, and the gathering darkness of Nazism. The novel unfolds through a vast ensemble of characters — merchants, intellectuals, romantics, and rebels — all orbiting the patriarch Meshulam Moskat, whose death sets the family adrift in a rapidly changing world. With the moral complexity and narrative grandeur of Tolstoy, Singer illustrates how tradition and identity fracture under the pressures of history, culminating in one of literature's most devastating and prophetic conclusions.