"[A] lively and imaginative debut novel Gross's entertaining, sometimes disquieting tale delivers laugh-out-loud moments and deep insight on human foolishness, resilience, and faith." - . · Kreskol, the setting for Max Gross’ witty and sagacious debut novel, “The Lost Shtetl” (HarperVia, pp., ★★★ out of four), has been forgotten by www.doorway.ru Accessible For Free: True. · Author Max Gross and his new novel, 'The Lost Shtetl.'. By. Matthew Kassel. Novem. By day, Max Gross works as the editor of a weekly commercial real estate newspaper in New York. For about the past decade or so, he has also been quietly chipping away at an ambitious and imaginative debut novel, The Lost Shtetl, published last month by HarperVia, an imprint of Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.
Max Gross: The Lost Shtetl. A modern-day Yiddish folktale in an alternative Jewish world, with much to consider for our own. The Lost Shtetl, winner of The Jewish Book Council's Miller Family Book Club Award.. A remarkable debut novel—written with the fearless imagination of Michael Chabon and the piercing humor of Gary Shteyngart—about a small Jewish village in the Polish forest. The Lost Shtetl: Book summary and reviews of The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross. Summary | Reviews | More Information | More Books. The Lost Shtetl. by Max Gross. X. Critics' Opinion: Readers' rating: Not Yet Rated. Published in USA Oct pages Genre: Novels Publication Information. Debut. Rate this book. Write a Review. Buy This Book. "Judging by The Lost Shtetl, his brilliant debut novel, author Max Gross is the metaphysical love child of Sholem Aleichem and J.K. Rowling." -- Hadassah Magazine 'With warmth and charm, Gross spins a resonant and poignant tale of village life complete with gossip and matchmakers" -- The National Book Review.
Novelist Max Gross poses precisely this question in The Lost Shtetl. Gross’ debut novel unfolds with a transfixing, howlingly funny and achingly sad tale of incompatible cultures colliding with the looping, shaggy dog humor of Jonas Jonasson, and delightful echoes of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle, Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, and Woody Allen’s Sleeper. Max Gross: The Lost Shtetl A modern-day Yiddish folktale in an alternative Jewish world, with much to consider for our own. The Lost Shtetl, winner of The Jewish Book Council’s Miller Family Book Club Award. by Max Gross ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 13, A tiny Polish village the Nazis somehow missed remains disconnected from the modern world—until an unhappy newlywed tears out of town. “It would have been intoxicating to anyone who had the least amount of interest in World War II and the Holocaust to delve into an unambiguously happy [story].”.
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