The Winding Road by Rokhl Feygenberg PAPERBACK 9780815612063

Name: The Winding Road by Rokhl Feygenberg PAPERBACK 9780815612063
Brand: Syracuse University Press

Syracuse University Press

Rokhl Feygenberg became one of the youngest authors published in Yiddish when her autobiographical debut novel, The Winding Road, was released serially in 1905. This fictionalized account of her own rough childhood in a small Belarusian shtetl in the 1890s is framed by the deaths of her father when she was five and that of her mother when she was fourteen. Forced to provide and care for her family, the narrator finds escape through books and is inspired by them to invent an alternate fantasy life for herself, transforming the challenges of her everyday into a dreamscape world of city life and romance. \n In Tamara T. Helfer\u2019s masterful translation, the narrator describes her fictional village of Bulin, deep in wild swampland and forests, far away from the world of books where she finds\n\nThe Winding Road\nMy Childhood Years\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note: the price adver;