Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd

• Paperback - 28 March, 2006 - Ballantine Books
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• By: Sam Apple
• ISBN: 0345477731

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Best Jewish Novel In A Long, Long Time

I don't understand how people can fall over themselves to sing praises of Jonathan Safran Foer and his ilk when Sam Apple clearly trumps the ever-living hell out of the supposed new Jewish literary elite. Shelpping Through The Alps draws vivid pictures, raises intense emotions, explores history and modernity, is refreshingly honest and non-pretentious, and best of all, is side-splittingly funny. I generally hate novels, but I couldn't put this one down. It's an inviting read and I invite you to read it and compare to the works of every other Jewish novelist adorning Nextbook, Guilt & Pleasure, et al. Could you honestly say you'd rather see another Everything Is Illuminated than a new book from Sam Apple? I doubt it.

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