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The Day My Mother Cried and Other Stories

The Day My Mother Cried and Other Stories

Kaufman, William

Hardcover

Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature

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Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0815609558
ISBN13: 9780815609551
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Published: Sep 3 2010
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

The lasting charm of Kaufman's stories lies in a delightful mix of personal incidents and observations set against an anchoring backdrop of cultural tradition. His new collection is filled with tales from his parents' homeland in the Ukraine, his own childhood reminiscences, and his adult travels.

We watch the young author forced alongside every Jewish boy on the block to emulate Yehudi Menuhin on a ten-dollar violin with a moldy bow until the boy is spared by an innate lack of talent and his father's judgment of his concert: Enough is enough is more than enough. Kaufman is carefully attuned to the awkwardness of adulthood as well as to that of early adolescence. In Interlude in Bangkok, his narrator scours the city for a synagogue while pursued by a prostitute. Later he and a friend encounter Greta Garbo in a museum café and are too frightened to approach her. Aware of their intrigue, the mysterious movie star intones, I am not she; Kaufman, in his own way, says that of himself in these stories through an autobiographical narrator whose memories take on resonant, literary shapes in their retelling.

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