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Lambda Literary Award winner Judith Katz delivers shimmering illusions, dazzling language, and a story that twists like a snake charmer's cobra to produce the perfect brew of sex, magic, love, and deception.
Set in the brothels and gangster dens of Jewish Buenos Aires at the beginning of the twentieth century, The Escape Artist catapults us into the exotic lives of Sofia Teitelbaum and Hankus Lubarsky.
Sofia, a nice Jewish girl from Poland, is wooed from her family by Tutsik Goldenberg, who claims to be a wealthy Argentine diamond merchant in search of a wife. In a horrifying turnaround, he delivers her to his sister's brother in Buenos Aires.
Hankus, also a nice Jewish girl from Poland, escaped from the pogroms that killed her family by passing as a man. An illusionist to the core, she's created the persona of a handsome and mysterious magician and escape artist.
In Hankus, Tutsik spots a different kind of prospect. Managing Hankus could be his ticket to freedom from his sister's machinations. But his juggling is the act that brings Sofia and Hankus together. Their attempts to walk the tightrope of love, freedom, and independence are quickly put to the test.
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"Katz lives up to her first novel's potential in this moving, funny, wholly original picaresque about a nice Jewish girl... The past and common destiny of two remarkable women related with perfect timing in Sofia's convincing Yiddish-tinged English come together beautifully in this nicely crafted, emotionally satisfying, and well-researched historical fiction." -- Publishers Weekly
"The Escape Artist, a brilliant work of historical fiction -- a fast-paced and gorgeously written novel." -- Liberty Press
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