![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But success for Joe is only a means to the end of rescuing his parents and brother, still trapped in a darkening Europe.Ĭhabon has created a novel that aspires to the historical sweep of DeLillo's Underworld. The figure they develop, The Escapist ('Houdini, but mixed with Robin Hood and a little bit of Albert Schweitzer'), caricatures rage against the Nazis as the liberating hero frees the oppressed masses around the world. When Joe arrives in Brooklyn at the home of his more worldly and cynical cousin, Sammy Klayman, Joe's artistic talents suggest to Sam a means of making money in the burgeoning superhero market. His teacher, an elderly Jewish magician, tests his escapology skills to the limit when he smuggles Josef out of occupied Prague in the coffin of the Golem, the mythical Jewish homunculus. Josef Kavalier is a serious young man who grows up in Prague obsessed with the exploits of Harry Houdini. ![]()
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