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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Yiddish for pirates
    sub title: a novel : being an account of Moishe the captain, his meshugeneh life & the astounding adventures, his Sarah, the horizon, books & treasure, as told by Aaron, his African grey
  name:
    name part: Barwin, Gary
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 342 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, a hilarious, swashbuckling yet powerful tale of pirates, buried treasure and a search for the Fountain of Youth, told in the ribald, philosophical voice of a 500-year-old Jewish parrot. Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship's crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot who becomes his near-constant companion. From a present-day Florida nursing home, this wisecracking yet poetic bird guides us through a world of pirate ships, Yiddish jokes and treasure maps. But Inquisition Spain is a dangerous time to be Jewish and Moishe joins a band of hidden Jews trying to preserve some forbidden books. He falls in love with a young woman, Sarah. Though they are separated by circumstance, Moishe's wanderings are motivated as much by their connection as by his quest for loot and freedom. When all Jews are expelled from Spain, Moishe travels to the Caribbean with the ambitious Christopher Columbus, a self-made man who loves his creator. Moishe eventually becomes a pirate and seeks revenge on the Spanish while seeking the ultimate booty, the Fountain of Youth. This outstanding New Face of Fiction is filled with Jewish takes on classic pirate tales, including fights, prison escapes and exploits on the high seas, but it's also a tender love story, between Moishe and Sarah, and between Aaron and his "shoulder," Moishe. Rich with puns, colourful language, post-colonial satire and Kabbalistic hijinks, Yiddish for Pirates is also a compelling examination of mortality, memory, identity and persecution from one of this country's most talented writers.
  note: by Gary Barwin.
  subject:
    topic: Pirates
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Treasure troves
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Fountain of youth (Legendary place)
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PR9199.3.B3756 Y53 2016
  classification: C813/.54
  identifier: 9780345815514 (bound)
  identifier: 0345815513 (bound)
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 150814
    record change date: 20170926150500.0
    record identifier: in00003715276
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng