ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1966
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Harry Kemelman - Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry
Fawcett Crest, 1966
190 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro
Fawcett Books #T1459

A drunken man and a sick, aging, wealthy Jew present a crisis that interrupts Yom Kippur for Rabbi David Small, who suddenly finds himself investigating a possible murder, thanks to his pregant wife, Miriam.

Harry Kemelman`s first novel, Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, became something of a publishing phenomenon. Universally praised by reviewers, it was the choice of a major book club; publication rights were snapped up in half a dozen countries, and it was awarded the coveted Edgar of the Mystery Writers of America as best first novel of the year. Now here is his second novel, and the exciting news is that it`s even better than its best-selling predecessor.
Several years have passed since the first visit to Barnard`s Crossing. Rabbi David Small has become somewhat more settled-although he`s still irascible, and destined to become even more so. For on the eve of Yom Kippur, holiest day of the year, Moses Goralsky, a wealthy aging, Orthodox Jew, falls sick-and because Yom Kippur is a day of fast, he refuses to take his medicine! Meanwhile, across town, a man lies slumped in his car; he`s drunk, the garage door is closed, and the motor has been left running....
Only someone as ingenious as Harry Kemelman could combine two such widely disparate events to cause a congregational conflagration. The temple has grown, and now has as a source of additional revenue, a new cemetery. But the discovery that the rabbi has buried an apparent suicide offends Goralsky`s beliefs, and he threatens to with-draw a large gift he has promised to donate to the temple! Once again the rabbi is called upon to exercise his famed Talmudic reasoning (pilpul) to resolve a difficult congregational dilemma.

HARRY KEMELMAN encountered only one frustration with his highly praised first novel. Of the half-dozen translations of his book, none was in the only language his ninety-six-year-old mother reads: Yiddish. All this time she has been carrying around her son`s novel backside front-where it shows his photograph. Well, recently mother and son had their wish: the book is being serialized in a Yiddish newspaper, so now she can share the delight of thousands of readers. Author Kemelman, who lives with his family in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and is on the staff of State College, Boston, just achieved another ambition-he became a grandfather.

A marvelous murder puzzle with detective Rabbi David Small... `A first-rate novel as well as a good mystery.`
-Cleveland Plain Dealer
Q. If on Friday The Rabbi Slept Late... what happened on Saturday?
A. Read this superb suspense bestseller by Harry Kemelman. It`s even better than the Edgar-Winning, much translated masterpiece which introduced Rabbi David Small in `The Most Important Debut Of A Detective In Recent Years.`
The New York Times
`A crackling good mystery.`
-Time
`Rich in background and infinitely rewarding in reading pleasure.`
-Chicago Tribune
`Transcends the ordinary, shameless deceptions that go into the formation of a suspenseful mystery.... Buy. Read. Mazel.Tov.` -Virginia Kirkus
`The author does much more than compound a murder puzzle. He peoples his story with fascinating characters and clothes it with wise and witty observations on human relationships. His knowledge of Hebrew lore and ritual lends an added fillip to this brew.`
-Baltimore Sun


Fiction, Mystery