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050 00 $aPS3569.K44$bB57 1997
082 00 $a813/.54$221
100 1 $aSkibell, Joseph.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97041368
245 12 $aA blessing on the moon /$cJoseph Skibell.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aChapel Hill, N.C. :$bAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill,$c1997.
300 $a256 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aChaim Skibelski was a successful businessman, husband, and father before he was shot along with the other Jews from his small village. Instead of resting peacefully in the World to Come, Chaim wanders the earth and encounters a world that is at once absurd and oddly familiar.
520 8 $aHis adventures first take him back to his old house, where a Polish family has taken residence, and where he is invisible to all except their young, dying daughter, whom he befriends. When the moon inexplicably falls from the sky, Chaim is beckoned by the town rabbi (who has undergone a remarkable transformation of his own) to accompany him on an extraordinary journey, the consequences of which are greater than Chaim realizes.
520 8 $aHe meets a talkative head that belongs to the soldier who may have shot him. He visits a grand hotel that caters to the dead with mysterious comforts. And he helps two eccentric holy men search for the fallen moon. Through it all, Chaim manages to find hope and compassion in the most astounding circumstances, discovering beneath the human propensity for destruction the promise of renewal.
650 0 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$zPoland$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008121796
650 0 $aJews$zPoland$xHistory$y20th century$vFiction.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zPoland$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119627
655 7 $aFantasy fiction.$2gsafd
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3569.K44$iB57 1997