{"product_id":"before-all-the-world","title":"Before All The World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I do not believe that all the world is darkness'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a former speakeasy called Cricket's, a bar that welcomes, as Charles says in his secondhand Yiddish, \u003ci\u003efeygeles\u003c\/i\u003e. Leyb is startled; fourteen years in \u003ci\u003eamerike\u003c\/i\u003e has taught him that his native tongue is not known beyond his people. And yet here is suave Charles, fingers stained with ink, an easy manner with the barkeep, a Black man from the Seventh Ward, speaking to him in Jewish; Charles, who calls him 'Lion', and with whom he will fall in love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Leyb is haunted by memories of life before, on another continent and the village of his birth where, one day, everyone except the ten non-Jews, a young poet named Gittl and he himself, was taken to the forest and killed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeyb's two lifetimes come together when Gittl arrives in Philadelphia, thanks to a poem she wrote and the intervention of a shadowy character known only as the Baroness. And surrounding Gittl are \u003ci\u003emalokhim\u003c\/i\u003e, the talkative spirits of her siblings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlowing and churning with a glorious surge of language,  \u003ci\u003eBefore All the World\u003c\/i\u003e lays bare the impossibility of escaping trauma, the necessity of believing in a better way ahead, and the power that comes from our responsibility to the future. It asks, in the voices of its angels, the most essential question: What do you intend to do before all the world?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42578035015858,"sku":"9781472157423","price":355.01,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/products\/386256_63741b18141a30.96193469_9781472157423.jpg?v=1668769772","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/before-all-the-world","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}