{"product_id":"songs-for-the-butchers-daughter-paperback","title":"Songs for the Butcher's Daughter - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Manseau\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn inventive literary debut, \u003ci\u003eSongs for the Butcher's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is a sweeping Yiddish-inflected immigrant saga and love story about a young translator, an aging poet, and the faith in words that survives even the death of a language.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSummer, sweltering, 1996. A book warehouse in western Massachusetts. A man at the beginning of his adult life--and the end of his career rope--becomes involved with a woman, a language, and a great lie that will define his future. Most auspiciously of all, he runs across Itsik Malpesh, a ninetysomething Russian immigrant who claims to be the last Yiddish poet in America. When a set of accounting ledgers in which Malpesh has written his memoirs surfaces--twenty-two volumes brimming with adventure, drama, deception, passion, and wit--the young man is compelled to translate them, telling Malpesh's story as his own life unfolds, and bringing together two paths that coincide in shocking and unexpected ways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Moving from revolutionary Russia to New York's Depression-era Lower East Side to millennium's-end Baltimore with drama, adventure, and boisterous, feisty charm to spare, the unpeeling of this friendship is a story of the entire twentieth century. For fans of Nicole Krauss, Nathan Englander, Richard Powers, Amy Bloom, and Lore Segal, this book will amaze at every turn: narrated by two poets (one who doesn't know he is and one who doesn't know he isn't), it is a wise and warm look at the constant surprises and ineluctable ravages of time. It's a book about religion, love, translation, and typesetting--how one passion can be used to goad and thwart the other--and most of all, about how faith in the power of words can survive even the death of a language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A novel of faith lost and hope found in translation, \u003ci\u003eSongs for the Butcher's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is at once an immigrant literary saga, a love story for the ages, a Yiddish-inflected laughing-through-tears tour of world history for Jews and Gentiles alike, and a testament to Manseau's ambitious genius.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Manseau\u003c\/b\u003e, the author of the nonfiction works \u003ci\u003eKilling the Buddha \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eVows\u003c\/i\u003e, lives in Washington, D.C. This is his first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.97 x 8.42 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 09, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize (2008)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50326979510509,"sku":"9781416538714","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/jEDQhSvr3Z9781416538714.webp?v=1784873640","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/songs-for-the-butchers-daughter-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}