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However the Russians, suspicious of a young man that suddenly appears in town, out of nowhere, arrest him and exile him to a prisoner camp in Siberia! Critics saw in this last novel of his an allegorical rendering of the situation of many Jews, who, like himself, after World-War II, readily joined the “World-Wide Communist Revolution” to avenge the atrocities of Nazism, only to find themselves trapped in cruel, dictatorial regimes that became suspicious of them and refused to allow their assimilation and integration, quite like the regimes before the war.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49548278235409,"sku":"GOR010332443","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49737937092881,"sku":"NGR9781912545315","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52609429733649,"sku":"NIN9781912545315","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53146398490897,"sku":"NLS9781912545315","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1912545314.jpg?v=1751187020"},{"product_id":"fate-of-yaakov-maggid-book-ludovic-bruckstein-9781912545360","title":"The Fate of Yaakov Maggid","description":"Once again, the extraordinary storyteller, Ludovic Bruckstein, opens the door onto a lost world of Jewish history and lore in pre-war central Europe. Bringing in historical and ficitonal characters, he weaves tales of wisdom and mystery which linger inside us long after the story has ended. Bruckstein's previous fiction (The Trap, 2019 and With an Unopened Umbrella in the Pouring Rain, 2021) have gained him a growing audience of dedicated readers in the English-speaking world, where his work has been too-long absent.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49550133788945,"sku":"GOR013720884","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49752129962257,"sku":"NGR9781912545360","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51054245183761,"sku":"NIN9781912545360","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52489207480593,"sku":"NLS9781912545360","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1912545365.jpg?v=1751061469"},{"product_id":"with-an-unopened-umbrella-in-the-pouring-rain-book-ludovic-bruckstein-9781912545223","title":"With an Unopened Umbrella in the Pouring Rain","description":"The stories in this collection are stories of the lives and struggles of a wonderful variety of characters living in the Carpathian region, in the years leading up to a war that will suddenly and irretrievably destroy the pattern of their existence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49740893421841,"sku":"NGR9781912545223","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51056886087953,"sku":"NIN9781912545223","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51552459325713,"sku":"GOR013339281","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53146398359825,"sku":"NLS9781912545223","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1912545225.jpg?v=1751124703"},{"product_id":"maybe-even-happiness-book-ludovic-bruckstein-9781912545551","title":"Maybe Even Happiness","description":"In this striking collection of short stories, written over a twenty-year period, we find Bruckstein, the storyteller, at his most lyrical. Having completed his works charting the Jewish history of his family and community in the Carpathian town of Sighet (The Trap, With an Unopened Umbrella in the Pouring Rain, The Fate of Yakkov Maggid, also published in English by Istros), his voice is here set free to explore the joys in the details of the everyday. The collection opens with an invitation to a wax-work museum, where the viewer is not confronted with the likenesses of the rich and famous, but of ordinary people; neighbours and acquaintances each with a story to tell, each looking for that elusive feeling of happiness, which, unless we are very vigilant, is so often recognised only in retrospect. His heroes’ lives are presented with deep understanding, with humour, sometimes bordering on irony, but always with empathy and love. A sensitive reader need only follow the invitation, and let the wisdom of these stories guide them.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52610705293585,"sku":"NGR9781912545551","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53240908742929,"sku":"NLS9781912545551","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53252500947217,"sku":"NIN9781912545551","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781912545551.jpg?v=1771324947"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-ludovic-bruckstein.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}