In Babylon

by Moring, Marcel; Knecht, Stacey

• ISBN13: 9780060959630
• ISBN10: 0060959630
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-15
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

First published in Holland to international critical acclaim, In Babylon is a story of storytelling -- a novel of universal, inescapable power. When Nathan Hollander and his niece Sophie find themselves trapped by snow in a house in the mountains, Nathan passes the time by recounting their family history. In this story within the story, Nathan's tale spans generations of a Jewish family as it wanders the globe: from Magnus, who began a twenty-one-year walk from Poland to Holland in 1648, to the itinerant clockmakers who followed him, to Manhattan's Project. Here are comic embarrassments, mystical puzzles, and grand adventure rolled together. Gloriously rich, quirky, and endlessly inventive, Marcel Moring's novel is epic on a very human scale.

Table of Contents

Part One
Travellers	3	(10)
Sauerkraut	13	(19)
There is a God	32	(8)
The Kotzker	40	(8)
Who's There?	48	(32)
A Land of Milk and Butter	80	(62)
Zeno	142	(11)
Part Two
On Our Way (to the Middle)	153	(18)
The Second Law of Thermodynamics	171	(41)
Lacrima Christi	212	(30)
The Tower	242	(5)
Quid Pro Quo	247	(25)
This is Germany	272	(19)
Part Three/Four
Punishment	291	(7)
A Fairy Tale	298	(16)
Long Ago and Far Away	314	(12)
Fathers and Sons	326	(16)
The Depths of the Depths	342	(49)
Part Five
Stranger	391