I Pity the Poor Immigrant by Lazar, Zachary

I Pity the Poor Immigrant (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316254052)

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I Pity the Poor Immigrant by Lazar, Zachary

I Pity the Poor Immigrant

$15.00
I Pity the Poor Immigrant by Lazar, Zachary

I Pity the Poor Immigrant

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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This stunning novel by the author of Sway is another "brilliant portrayal of life as a legend" (Margot Livesey).

In 1972, the American gangster Meyer Lansky petitions the Israeli government for citizenship. His request is denied, and he is returned to the U.S. to stand trial. He leaves behind a mistress in Tel Aviv, a Holocaust survivor named Gila Konig.

In 2009, American journalist Hannah Groff travels to Israel to investigate the killing of an Israeli writer. She soon finds herself inside a web of violence that takes in the American and Israeli Mafias, the Biblical figure of King David, and the modern state of Israel. As she connects the dots between the murdered writer, Lansky, Gila, and her own father, Hannah becomes increasingly obsessed with the dark side of her heritage. Part crime story, part spiritual quest, I Pity the Poor Immigrant is also a novelistic consideration of Jewish identity.

Author: Zachary Lazar
ISBN-10: 0316254053
ISBN-13: 9780316254052
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Language: English
Published: 04/14/2015
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 06/28/2015 pg. 36
By Zachary Lazar
By Zachary Lazar
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Zachary Lazar's previous novel, Sway (Little, Brown), was chosen as a Best Book of 2008 by the Los Angeles Times, and his memoir, Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder (Little, Brown), was named a Best Book of 2009 in the Chicago Tribune. Lazar is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. He lives in New Orleans, where he is on the creative writing faculty at Tulane University.

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