{"product_id":"wedding-at-the-graveyard-and-other-stories-of-the-jewish-fantastical-9781958972687","title":"Wedding at the Graveyard: And Other Stories of the Jewish Fantastical","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor four decades Rabbi Bonder was immersed in spirituality and sought out by people who needed comfort. He has now transformed some of these cases into fiction.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Romanian woman, resident of Copacabana, wants to marry her dead fiancéeacute;. The discovery of a manuscript from the Inquisition, written to defame a woman, has the power to awaken lust and perversion in whomever reads it. A boy who scares his parents with paranormal powers prepares for his bar mitzvah. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are the subjects of Nilton Bonder's imagination in this collection of short stories. He writes in the tradition of the best of Isaac Bashevis Singer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach story comes from a place bordering reality with the unusual and inexplicable, revealing the little that's required to transform the ordinary into extraordinary. With starting points from real situations (including the author himself as a young man, seriously bored in the house of Abraham Joshua Heschel), each story moves into another reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreviously published in Portuguese.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNilton Bonder\u003c\/b\u003e was trained and ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. He lectures regularly in the United States. Born in Brazil, he's a best-selling author of twenty-nine books in Latin America, leads one of Brazil's most influential Jewish congregations, and is active in civil rights and ecological causes. Some of his books have been translated in Europe and Asia and twelve of them in the U.S., including \u003ci\u003eThe Kabbalah of Money\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Kabbalah of Food\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Shambhala. He's led workshops for corporations such as IBM and Globo Network Television, and delivered lectures at Boston University, New York Central Library, American Academy of Psychoanalysis, The Open Center, and Omega Institute. He lives in Rio de Janeiro and New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Monkfish Book Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51384253907218,"sku":"9781958972687","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5b8a8033-24cc-4607-b553-8112972f0499.jpg?v=1750167051","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wedding-at-the-graveyard-and-other-stories-of-the-jewish-fantastical-9781958972687","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}