A Blessing on the Moon, Joseph Skibell
A Blessing on the Moon, Joseph Skibell
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A Blessing on the Moon

Author: Joseph Skibell

Narrator: Allen Lewis Rickman

Unabridged: 7 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/07/2010

Synopsis

At the center of A Blessing on the Moon is Chaim Skibelski. Death is merely the beginning of Chaim’s troubles. In the opening pages, he is shot along with the other Jews of his small Polish village. But instead of resting peacefully in the World to Come, Chaim, for reasons unclear to him, is left to wander the earth, accompanied by his rabbi, who has taken the form of a talking crow. Chaim’s afterlife journey is filled with extraordinary encounters whose consequences are far greater than he realizes.

Not since Art Spiegelman’s Maus has a work so powerfully evoked one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century with such daring originality.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Katie

I turned a corner with this. Always thought magical realism was no more my cup of tea than sappy romance but I loved this. To begin with I found the whimsicality with which the Holocaust was being treated discomforting. But that's not a bad thing. Reading about the Holocaust should be discomforting.......more

Goodreads review by Jill

One of the unique joys of a passionate reader is chancing upon a book that is so richly imagined it grabs you by the hand and takes you along on an incredible journey. Such is the power of the remarkable A Blessing On The Moon. Not since D. M. Thomas’s amazing The White Hotel have I read a book that......more

Goodreads review by Roger

The World to COme A skein of gossamer wound around one of the heaviest facts of history, this book from fourteen years ago still has the power to amaze. The fact is the Holocaust. The gossamer is woven of at least two separate strands: the idea that someone can climb out of a mass grave and move as a......more

Goodreads review by Janet

Jaw dropping--the afterlife of a Jewish village exterminated by the Nazis in occupied Poland. Chagall between hard covers.......more

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