This is the story of Zayde, his beautiful and mystic mother Judith, and her three lovers: cunning Globerman, the cattle dealer; Jacob, owner of hundreds of birds and host to the four meals; and Moshe, raised as a girl by his mother and on a traumatic life-long quest for his lost golden braid.
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This is the story of Zayde, his beautiful and mystic mother Judith, and her three lovers: cunning Globerman, the cattle dealer; Jacob, owner of hundreds of birds and host to the four meals; and Moshe, raised as a girl by his mother and on a traumatic life-long quest for his lost golden braid.
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Shalev once again holds the reader in the grips of his mastery in storytelling, Magical realism makes the story shimmer just a little brighter than the day today.