- EAN13
- 9780349704845
- Éditeur
- Dialogue Books
- Date de publication
- 07/03/2024
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9780349704845
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A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish
women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets and the fantastical visitation of a
shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years.
City of Laughter follows a young queer woman stuck in a thicket of
generational secrets back to her family's origins, where ancestral clues begin
to reveal a lineage both haunted and shaped by desire.
Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens,
an 18th-century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to make wedding guests
laugh, receives a visitation from a mysterious stranger - bringing the
laughter the people of Ropshitz desperately need, and triggering a sequence of
events that will reverberate across the coming century.
In the present day, Shiva Margolin, recovering from the heartbreak of her
first big queer love and grieving the death of her beloved father, struggles
to connect with her guarded mother, who spends most of her time at the local
funeral home. A student of Jewish folklore, Shiva seizes an opportunity to
visit Poland, hoping her family's mysteries will make more sense if she walks
in the footsteps of her great-grandmother, Mira, about whom no one speaks.
What she finds will make her question not only her past and her future, but
also her present. Electric and sharply intimate, City of Laughter zigzags
between our universe and a tapestry of real and invented Jewish folklore,
asking how far we can travel from the stories that have raised us without
leaving them behind.
women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets and the fantastical visitation of a
shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years.
City of Laughter follows a young queer woman stuck in a thicket of
generational secrets back to her family's origins, where ancestral clues begin
to reveal a lineage both haunted and shaped by desire.
Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens,
an 18th-century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to make wedding guests
laugh, receives a visitation from a mysterious stranger - bringing the
laughter the people of Ropshitz desperately need, and triggering a sequence of
events that will reverberate across the coming century.
In the present day, Shiva Margolin, recovering from the heartbreak of her
first big queer love and grieving the death of her beloved father, struggles
to connect with her guarded mother, who spends most of her time at the local
funeral home. A student of Jewish folklore, Shiva seizes an opportunity to
visit Poland, hoping her family's mysteries will make more sense if she walks
in the footsteps of her great-grandmother, Mira, about whom no one speaks.
What she finds will make her question not only her past and her future, but
also her present. Electric and sharply intimate, City of Laughter zigzags
between our universe and a tapestry of real and invented Jewish folklore,
asking how far we can travel from the stories that have raised us without
leaving them behind.
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