(ePUB) Yiddish for Pirates

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Yiddish for Pirates
by Gary Barwin

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• Release date: April 5, 2016
• Author: Gary Barwin
• Publisher: Random House Canada
• Genres: fiction, canada, humor, jewish, historical, religion, fantasy, pirates, adventure
• Format: hardcover, 352 pages
• ISBN: 9780345815514 (0345815513)
• Language: english
• Awards: Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humor (2017), Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2016), Governor General’s Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général Nominee for Traduction (de l’anglais vers le français) by Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné (2019), Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Fiction (2017)

About The Book

Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship’s crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot who becomes his near-constant companion.     

From a present-day Florida nursing home, this wisecracking yet poetic bird guides us through a world of pirate ships, Yiddish jokes and treasure maps. But Inquisition Spain is a dangerous time to be Jewish and Moishe joins a band of hidden Jews trying to preserve some forbidden books. He falls in love with a young woman, Sarah; though they are separated by circumstance, Moishe’s wanderings are motivated as much by their connection as by his quest for loot and freedom. When all Jews are expelled from Spain, Moishe travels to the Caribbean with the ambitious Christopher Columbus, a self-made man who loves his creator. Moishe eventually becomes a pirate and seeks revenge on the Spanish while seeking the ultimate booty: the Fountain of Youth.    

This outstanding New Face of Fiction is filled with Jewish takes on classic pirate tales — fights, prison escapes, and exploits on the high seas — but it’s also a tender love story, between Moishe and Sarah, and between Aaron and his “shoulder,” Moishe. Rich with puns, colourful language, post-colonial satire and Kabbalistic hijinks, Yiddish for Pirates is also a compelling examination of mortality, memory, identity and persecution from one of this country’s most talented writers.

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