Stories of an Imaginary Childhood

by Melvin Jules Bukiet

Book Overview

In Stories of an Imaginary Childhood Melvin Jules Bukiet inscribes the world that might have been his own if not for the catastrophe that destroyed most of Jewish life in eastern Europe during the 1940s. Set before the Holocaust in the tiny Polish shtetl of Proszowice, each interconnected story follows the young protagonist through the pleasures and humiliations of childhood and the rites of manhood, as he fights against historical, social, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299180743
• ISBN13: 9780299180744
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.2"