Songs for the butcher's daughter
a novel
by Peter Manseau
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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.--from Publisher description (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2007049787-d.html).
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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
2010, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter: A Novel
Jun 09, 2009, Free Press
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Songs for the butcher's daughter: a novel
2008, Simon & Schuster
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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter: A Novel
September 9, 2008, Free Press
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