Literary Fiction · WarmTwenty-four stories translated from Yiddish, from "A Crown of Feathers" to "Grandfather and Grandson"
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
Twenty-four stories translated from Yiddish by the author and others
Farrar, Straus & Giroux published the collection in 1973. It contains 24 stories, including "A Crown of Feathers," "A Day in Coney Island," "The Captive," "The Blizzard," "The Cabalist of East Broadway" and "Grandfather and Grandson." The translations were done by Singer, Laurie Colwin and others. Alfred Kazin's review described the stories as portraying Jewish life in Poland.
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Who
Many characters across twenty-four stories.
World
Jewish life in Poland, as Alfred Kazin described it, and other places.
What makes it different
The stories were translated from Yiddish by Singer, Laurie Colwin and others.
Feel
A varied collection. It shared the 1974 National Book Award for Fiction with Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.
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