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Metropolitan Books
July 2013
On Sale: July 9, 2013
240 pages
ISBN: 0805082123
EAN: 9780805082128
Kindle: B008MWL9BW
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Here Comes Mrs. Kugelman is Minka
Pradelski's enchanting novel of listening and telling,
of the silence between Holocaust survivors and their
children, and of the power of stories to mend broken
bonds When feisty young Tsippy Silberberg of the
curious eating habits receives word from Tel Aviv that a
distant aunt has left her a mysterious inheritance—an
incomplete fish service in a battered brown suitcase—she
decides to break her rigid routine and go collect it in
person. But before she is even able to settle into her hotel
room, an odd old woman bangs on her door and invites herself
in. Her name is Bella Kugelman, and she is determined to
talk. And talk she does, with wondrous effect. Soon
the room is filled with people—residents of the Polish town
of Bedzin before the war, who now live on, if only in Mrs.
Kugelman’s stories. Flirtatious girls and sly shopkeepers,
rich industrialists and a family so poor that their necks
are bent over from looking for coins—in tale after tale, a
town magically returns to life, even as its grim future
looms darkly. And under the thrall of Mrs. Kugelman’s words,
Tsippy finally pieces together her aunt’s strange bequest,
as well as her own place in the story unfolding before her.
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