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Oberon Press, Ottawa, Canada
The cuckoo is a bird that lays its eggs in other birds’ nests. So with Israel, where most of these stories take place and where for generations the occupants of the land have been disputing who is the rightful owner and who is the cuckoo. The stories all take place in a world where God plays cruel tricks on His people. But whereas in the last collection (TTTE) the tone was intense and hard-hitting, in this collection Mandelman is more relaxed and, at least on the surface, more easygoing. Yet whatever the tone, Mandelman has just two objectives. The first: once you start reading you shouldn’t be able to stop. The second: once you’ve finished reading you shouldn’t be able to forget it.
“Sholom Aleichem writing Peyton Place on speed...”
(Montreal Gazette)
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