OT: The Frozen Rabbi
ISBN: 3896674366
Publisher: Karl Blessing Verlag
language: German / January 2011
Price: 21.95
Summary
An astute social satire, a bizarre time travel and a gripping novel
When rummaging through the Freezer meets the bored teenager Bernie Karp between frozen pizzas and steaks across an ice block in which a bearded old man is frozen. A rabbi, like his equally bored parents tell him that was passed within the family as a kind of talisman for generations.
happens during a power failure the unbelievable: The Rabbi thaws and awakens to new life. The fallen from the time holy man developed unsuspected energy and found lucrative opportunities for development in the modern world. While the rabbi in a shopping center, the House of enlightenment "is based managers and stressed and frustrated Housewives salvation sold believes Bernie to have finally found a meaning in his life. He finds out gradually, as the frozen by a Polish shtetl clergy of the nineteenth century in a freezer in the Memphis of today has come and wants to preserve the family legacy. But the rabbi does nothing but trouble.
The award-winning author is regarded as the legitimate successor of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
My opinion:
"The frozen Rabbi" by Steve Stern is a book of which I due to the short description an entertaining, humorous, satirical novel expected and was quite disappointed. Were the first about 50 pages nor entertaining and at times really funny, makes the book then after a very strong, the author gets caught up in outrageous tales, which mate with strange coincidences and are seasoned by ridiculous curiosities like the non-physical experiences Bernie while yet are not even funny anymore. I have nothing against scurrilous books, yes I love this kind are usually, but here is the author of my opinion a little over the top shot.
"The frozen Rabbi" is told in two time levels, towards the end together, ever tells the past and even the presence of between which the rabbi be seen as a kind of connection and the red thread of history can, for the episodes in the past as he came in the freezer of Karp's in Memphis, where the reader side trip to Poland, America and Israel is doing and some experiences in Jewish history at the turn of the century 18/1900 and the subsequent decades. This part I felt was quite interesting, although some, especially the stay in Israel while reading went like chewing gum. The episodes were present, especially towards the end, only annoying for me and I was glad when it finally was over. The characters were
me neither I felt as pale and inauthentic, almost a little stereotypical and it also marked not always logical, nor to take for yourself. Especially the Rabbi Bernie and I walked while reading belonging to the pointer and I can sometimes only shake his head if their absurdity.
is linguistically the book in the sense of demanding than the very common Yiddish phrases or words smashed and many Jewish terms and phrases that can be for some readers a tripping hazard. While there are in the final output (I read a reading copy), a glossary, which is clearly necessary, but I think the author is a little exaggerated and it has to be torn from it by the conditional permanent leaves from the flow of reading. Of these, but apart can the style, if you look a little added in the places accustomed to leaning against the Yiddish word order to read well and fluently.
has it all in all, with "The frozen Rabbi" fallen only in places and the potential of the book has not been exhausted in my opinion. There is the issue of Jewish history clearly better books and I can say for this piece of work not reading recommendation. From me there is therefore only 4 of 10 points .
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