Signs and Wonders (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Melvin Jules Bukiet
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: A few months at the end of 1999
- Setting: Germany
- Principal Characters: Ben Alef, Snakes Hammurabi, The Peddler, Dietrich Eisenheim, Asher Rose, Max Vetter
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Prisoners, Crime or criminals, Twentieth century, Religion, Shipwrecks, Miracles, Nazism or Nazis, Weddings, Germany or German people, Pilgrims or pilgrimages
- Locales: Germany
Melvin Jules Bukiet teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College. He received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for the best Jewish- American Fiction of 1992 for Stories of an Imaginary Childhood (1992). He has also written After (1996) and While the Messiah Tarries (1995), and his stories have appeared in such publications as Antaeus and The Paris Review.
In the brief prologue to Signs and Wonders, Bukiet considers the concept of the end of the millennium. He examines the arbitrariness of the calendar that measures the centuries and notes how...
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