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Unterzakhn
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Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
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ISBN10: 0805242597
ISBN13: 9780805242591
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Published: Apr 3 2012
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Awards: L.A. Times Book Prize
ISBN13: 9780805242591
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Published: Apr 3 2012
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Awards: L.A. Times Book Prize
A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths.
A haunting and often heartbreaking look at Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the early 20th century [and] also a story about women, power, and bodies. --Austin American-Statesman
A haunting and often heartbreaking look at Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the early 20th century [and] also a story about women, power, and bodies. --Austin American-Statesman
For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of New York's Lower East Side circa 1910 are both a fascinating playground and a place where life's lessons are learned quickly and often cruelly. In drawings that capture both the tumult and the telling details of that street life, Unterzakhn (Yiddish for Underthings) tells the story of these sisters: as wide-eyed little girls absorbing the sights and sounds of a neighborhood of struggling immigrants; as teenagers taking their own tentative steps into the wider world (Esther working for a woman who runs both a burlesque theater and a whorehouse, Fanya for an obstetrician who also performs illegal abortions); and, finally, as adults battling for their own piece of the golden land, where the difference between just barely surviving and triumphantly succeeding involves, for each of them, painful decisions that will have unavoidably tragic repercussions.
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