{"product_id":"in-the-days-of-simon-stern-phoenix-fiction-0226112543","title":"In the Days of Simon Stern (Phoenix Fiction)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0226112543\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cohen, Arthur A.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNathan, a blind Jewish scribe, tells the story of the coming of the Messiah in the person of one Simon Stern-from his birth on the Lower East Side, through his career as a millionaire dealer in real estate, to his building of a refuge for the Jewish remnant of World War II.\"A majestic work of fiction that should stand world literature's test of time, to be read and reread. A masterpiece.\"-Commonweal\"This book ensnares one of the most extraordinarily daring ideas to inhabit an American novel in a number of years. For one thing, it is that risky devising, dreamed of only by the Thomas Manns of the world, a serious and vastly conceived fiction bled out of the theological imagination. For another, it is clearly an 'American' novel-altogether American, despite its Jewish particularity: it is not so much about the history of the Jews as it is about the idea of the New World as haven. . . . In its teeming particularity every vein of this book runs with a brilliance of Jewish insight and erudition to be found in no other novelist. Arthur Cohen is the first writer of any American generation to compose a profoundly Jewish fiction on a profoundly Western theme.\"-Cynthia Ozick, New York Times Book Review\"This stately, ambitious amalgam of Jewish myth, history, theology, and speculations on the Jewish soul is like an enormous Judaic archeological ruin-often hard for the uninitiated to interpret, but impressive. . . . Intelligent, inventive, fascinating.\"-New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51675966243104,"sku":"NEW0226112543","price":17.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91IR8tVqEPL.jpg?v=1779228427","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/in-the-days-of-simon-stern-phoenix-fiction-0226112543","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}