{"product_id":"the-street-9780941423458","title":"The Street","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Street\u003c\/i\u003e offers an unsentimental portrait of Eastern European Jewish life, with none of the Shubert Alley schmaltz of \u003ci\u003eFiddler on the Roof \u003c\/i\u003eor the mythopoeic grandeur of Isaac Bashevis Singer's fictions. . . . Rabon speaks to us today with immediacy and power, in this memorable novel about a vanished world quite like our own.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA master novelist of city life, Israel Rabon describes in \u003ci\u003eThe Street \u003c\/i\u003ethat peculiar moment in recent history--Eastern Europe between world wars. Day to day reality had shattered into pieces, yet people still seemed empowered with an unearthly optimism. His characters include a tubercular clown, a suicidal poet and his handsome young wife, a circus wrestler, and an ex-soldier who finds employment reading aloud the titles at a movie theatre for an illiterate audience. The eerie power of this book lies in its unerringly accurate depiction of human frailty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in the Polish village of Govorchov in 1900, the son of a widowed rag peddler, the Yiddish writer \u003cb\u003eIsrael Rabon\u003c\/b\u003e published two novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Street \u003c\/i\u003e(1924) and \u003ci\u003eBalut \u003c\/i\u003e(1934), as well as two volumes of poetry, \u003ci\u003eBehind the World's Fence\u003c\/i\u003e (1928) and \u003ci\u003eLider \u003c\/i\u003e(1938). In 1941 Rabon was seized by the Nazis and presumably killed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Da Capo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50330469794066,"sku":"9780941423458","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d034f7b2-6c8c-41c5-8e6a-051e08269fa4.jpg?v=1727801976","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-street-9780941423458","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}