false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838069m/6295984.jpg 2214742 5 Summer, sweltering, 1996. A book warehouse in western Massachusetts. A man at the beginning of his adult life -- and the end of his career rope -- becomes involved with a woman, a language, and a great lie that will define his future. Most auspiciously of all, he runs across Itsik Malpesh, a ninetysomething Russian immigrant who claims to be the last Yiddish poet in America. When a set of accounting ledgers in which Malpesh has written his memoirs surfaces -- twenty-two volumes brimming with adventure, drama, deception, passion, and wit -- the young man is compelled to translate them, telling Malpesh's story as his own life unfolds, and bringing together two paths that coincide in shocking and unexpected ways.<P>Moving from revolutionary Russia to New York's Depression-era Lower East Side to millennium's- \end Baltimore with drama, adventure, and boisterous, feisty charm to spare, the unpeeling of this friendship is a story of the entire twentieth century. For fans of Nicole Krauss, Nathan Englander, Richard Powers, Amy Bloom, and Lore Segal, this book will amaze at every turn: narrated by two poets (one who doesn't know he is and one who doesn't know he isn't), it is a wise and warm look at the constant surprises and ineluctable ravages of time. It's a book about religion, love, and typesetting -- how one passion can be used to goad and thwart the other -- and most of all, about how faith in the power of words can survive even the death of a language.<P>A novel of faith lost and hope found in translation, <I>Songs for the Butcher's Daughter</i> is at once an immigrant's epic saga, a love story for the ages, a Yiddish-inflected laughing-through-tears tour of world history for Jews and Gentiles alike, and a testament to Manseau's ambitious genius. 2220530 book 9 9 2008 Songs for the Butcher's Daughter: A Novel total:109|5:32|4:42|3:29|2:4|1:2| 109 425 290 50 2214742 1416538704 9781416538707 100 46 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838074m/2214742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2214742.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter_A_Novel 5 2 false Mon Sep 15 10:55:03 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 00:00:24 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 10:55:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 6295984 1416538712 9781416538714 7 4 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838069m/6295984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6295984.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter 4 0 false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 18:17:38 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 18:37:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2214742 1416538704 9781416538707 100 46 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838074m/2214742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2214742.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter_A_Novel 3 0 false Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 04 23:06:41 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 23:06:41 -0800 2009 1
this book was hard to get into for that reason (i think i just need a break for awhile), and plus, it's told from 2 viewpoin...more...]]> 2214742 1416538704 9781416538707 100 46 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838074m/2214742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2214742.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter_A_Novel 5 0 false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 15:08:57 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 15:17:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6295984 1416538712 9781416538714 7 4 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838069m/6295984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6295984.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter 4 0 false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 08:00:11 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 13:26:53 -0700 2009 bashert (fate) so let's just chalk it up to that, shall we?

Manseau's book Vows caught my attention at ALA years ago, and when I heard him at RUSA's Notable Tastes Breakfast this ...more...]]> 2214742 1416538704 9781416538707 100 46 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838074m/2214742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2214742.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter_A_Novel 5 1 false Sun Oct 12 07:05:05 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 14 11:24:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2214742 1416538704 9781416538707 100 46 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838074m/2214742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2214742.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter_A_Novel 5 1 false Sun May 04 16:06:02 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 16:10:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2214742 1416538704 9781416538707 100 46 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838074m/2214742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2214742.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter_A_Novel 5 0 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 08:15:02 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 08:24:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6295984 1416538712 9781416538714 7 4 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838069m/6295984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6295984.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter 5 0 false Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 06:21:27 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 18:34:59 -0700 2009
I've been very lucky in finding and reading books focused on the immigrant Jews of America straddling the old world, like ...more...]]> 2214742 1416538704 9781416538707 100 46 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838074m/2214742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2214742.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter_A_Novel 3 0 false Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 07 05:51:23 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 05:53:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2214742 1416538704 9781416538707 100 46 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838074m/2214742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2214742.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter_A_Novel 1 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 21 16:46:41 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 16:58:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2214742 1416538704 9781416538707 100 46 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838074m/2214742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2214742.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter_A_Novel 4 0 false Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 16:32:24 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 15:32:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2214742 1416538704 9781416538707 100 46 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838074m/2214742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2214742.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter_A_Novel 5 0 false Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 23:16:16 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 23:21:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2214742 1416538704 9781416538707 100 46 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838074m/2214742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2214742.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter_A_Novel 3 0 false Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 10:36:28 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 11:14:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2214742 1416538704 9781416538707 100 46 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838074m/2214742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2214742.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter_A_Novel 5 0 false Sun Jul 12 14:22:01 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 14:22:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2214742 1416538704 9781416538707 100 46 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838074m/2214742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2214742.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter_A_Novel 5 0 false Wed Jul 08 15:23:19 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 15:28:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2214742 1416538704 9781416538707 100 46 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838074m/2214742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2214742.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter_A_Novel 3 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 22 21:48:48 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 21:52:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2214742 1416538704 9781416538707 100 46 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838074m/2214742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2214742.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter_A_Novel 5 0 false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 16:50:35 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 06:07:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2214742 1416538704 9781416538707 100 46 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838074m/2214742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2214742.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter_A_Novel 3 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 15:20:41 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 15:26:39 -0700 2009 2214742 1416538704 9781416538707 100 46 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255838074m/2214742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2214742.Songs_for_the_Butcher_s_Daughter_A_Novel 4 0 false Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 22:14:03 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 22:16:43 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6295984