{"product_id":"wedding-at-the-graveyard-and-other-stories-of-the-jewish-fantastical-9781958972687","title":"Wedding at the Graveyard: And Other Stories of the Jewish Fantastical","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor four decades Rabbi Bonder was immersed in spirituality and sought out by people who needed comfort. He has now transformed some of these cases into fiction.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Romanian woman, resident of Copacabana, wants to marry her dead fianc?. The discovery of a manuscript from the Inquisition, written to defame a woman, has the power to awaken lust and perversion in whomever reads it. A boy who scares his parents with paranormal powers prepares for his bar mitzvah. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are the subjects of Nilton Bonder's imagination in this collection of short stories. He writes in the tradition of the best of Isaac Bashevis Singer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach story comes from a place bordering reality with the unusual and inexplicable, revealing the little that's required to transform the ordinary into extraordinary. With starting points from real situations (including the author himself as a young man, seriously bored in the house of Abraham Joshua Heschel), each story moves into another reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreviously published in Portuguese.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Monkfish Book Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781958972687\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d","brand":"Nilton Bonder","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45078831759541,"sku":"9781958972687","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3803ea60-58f7-4d68-8f0f-48b22878deaa.jpg?v=1738681792","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/wedding-at-the-graveyard-and-other-stories-of-the-jewish-fantastical-9781958972687","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}