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29%OFFIain Sinclair - Rodinsky's Room - 9781862073296 - V9781862073296
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Rodinsky's Room

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Description for Rodinsky's Room Paperback. Combining the history of East End London with personal quest, this book weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodinsky - which took her to Poland, Israel and around Jewish London - with Iain Sinclair's meditations on her journey into her own past. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; AFKN; HBTB; JFCA; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 312.
Rodinsky's world was that of the East European Jewry, cabbalistic speculation, an obsession with language as code and terrible loss. He touched the imagination of artist Rachel Lichtenstein, whose grandparents had left Poland in the 1930s. This text weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodinsky - which took her to Poland, to Israel and around Jewish London - with Iain Sinclair's meditations on her journey into her own past and on the Whitechapel he has reinvented in his own writing. Rodinsky's Room is a testament to a world that has all but vanished, a homage to a unique culture and way of life.

Product Details

Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781862073296
SKU
V9781862073296
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About Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair is the author of White Chapell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinsky's Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); and Radon Daughters, all available from Granta Books. Born in Wales, he now lives in Hackney, East London. Rachel Lichtenstein is an artist, archivist and writer who lives and works in east London. She is also a tour guide and gives lectures on the Jewish East End. She is also the author of Rodinsky's Whitechapel and On Brick Lane.

Reviews for Rodinsky's Room
This is a mystery story and a detective story. It is a story of obsession and possession. It is a story about disappearing people, disappearing buildings and a disappearing way of life. Most of all, it is a story of a man who vanished, and the woman who set out to find him and, in the process, found herself
Guardian
Highly original, entertaining and instructive ... Thanks to those two mythographers, the story of David Rodinsky will remain with us
Times Literary Supplement
A wonderful story
Observer

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