{"product_id":"9780226112541","title":"In the Days of Simon Stern (Phoenix Fiction Series Pf)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNathan, a blind Jewish scribe, tells the story of the coming of the Messiah in the person of one Simon Stern—from his birth on the Lower East Side, through his career as a millionaire dealer in real estate, to his building of a refuge for the Jewish remnant of World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A majestic work of fiction that should stand world literature's test of time, to be read and reread. A masterpiece.\"—Commonweal \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book ensnares one of the most extraordinarily daring ideas to inhabit an American novel in a number of years. For one thing, it is that risky devising, dreamed of only by the Thomas Manns of the world, a serious and vastly conceived fiction bled out of the theological imagination. For another, it is clearly an 'American' novel—altogether American, despite its Jewish particularity: it is not so much about the history of the Jews as it is about the idea of the New World as haven. . . . In its teeming particularity every vein of this book runs with a brilliance of Jewish insight and erudition to be found in no other novelist. Arthur Cohen is the first writer of any American generation to compose a profoundly Jewish fiction on a profoundly Western theme.\"—Cynthia Ozick, New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This stately, ambitious amalgam of Jewish myth, history, theology, and speculations on the Jewish soul is like an enormous Judaic archeological ruin—often hard for the uninitiated to interpret, but impressive. . . . Intelligent, inventive, fascinating.\"—New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45371733180495,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":805.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/9174\/2287\/files\/9780226112541-1.jpg?v=1784952754","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9780226112541","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}