Yossl the Citron King: and other short stories

By Peter Elyakim Taussig

"Given a choice Albert would have never left his recliner..." thus begins the strange love story between a man and his chair. In Papua New Guinea a hitherto uncontacted tribe is discovered to speak Yiddish. A little deaf orphan survives the Bosnian massacre and is adopted by a nurse from Toronto where he meets another survivor, a deaf-mute Muslim girl who changes his life. A hiker, lost in the forests of New England meets a reclusive trapper who he suspects to be God almighty hiding from humanity. The invention of artificial gills allows humans to recolonize the ocean. An entrepreneur founds a world-wide lottery that ushers in world peace. And then there is Yossl "the citron king", a traveling merchant peddling sacramental Etrogs in the shtetls of 19th century Austria who marries a "shiksa" and thus becomes (perhaps) the great grandfather of the author. These are just some of outlandish tales in this absurdist collection of short stories.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08HGPPMGT
• ISBN13: 9798670879392
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"