The Book of Paradise: A Yiddish Comic Novel

The Book of Paradise: A Yiddish Comic Novel

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15

This is, my first time reading a comical novel and in terms of that it scored decent, it made me giggle quite a few times throughout the book. The plot itself is quite entertaining and unique, an angel reincarnating as a mortal baby with his memory intact, rather uncomfortable to fit in the new society since his days of paradise are ingrained in his mental space quite prevalently, it makes me think about whether the author created this illusion to portray his life incidents. As for other things we see that the mythical paradise is nothing like the religious scripture portrayed to be, the paradise is like a mortal world, There's classicism, sexism, xenophobia, scandalous affairs and perverted/tyrannical superiors. Although most of the book of quite entertaining it fell flat after Samuel and Little Pisser's behemoth rescue mission.
Overall it was a nice read 3.5/5

December 6, 2023Report this review