Red Magician, Lisa Goldstein
Red Magician, Lisa Goldstein
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Red Magician

Author: Lisa Goldstein

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Unabridged: 5 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/30/2019


Synopsis

Winner of the National Book Award: In the shadow of the Holocaust, a young girl discovers the power of magic.

In the schoolroom of a simple European village, Kicsi spends her days dreaming of the lands beyond the mountains: Paris and New York, Arabia, and Shanghai. When the local rabbi curses Kicsi's school for teaching lessons in Hebrew, the holy tongue, the possibility of adventure seems further away than ever. But when a mysterious stranger appears telling stories of far-off lands, Kicsi feels the world within her grasp.

His name is Vörös, and he is a magician's assistant who seems to have powers all his own. There is darkness growing at the edge of the village—a darkness far blacker than any rabbi's curse. Vörös warns of the Nazi threat, but only Kicsi hears what he says. As evil consumes a continent, Vörös will teach Kicsi that sometimes the magician's greatest trick is survival.

About Lisa Goldstein

Lisa Goldstein is the National Book Award-winning author of The Red Magician and The Uncertain Places. She has published eleven novels and two short fiction collections, including Dark Cities Underground, The Alchemist's Door, and Travellers in Magic. Her short fiction has appeared in such magazines as Interzone and Asimov's Science Fiction, and in anthologies including The Norton Book of Science Fiction and the Year's Best Fantasy series. Goldstein is also a founding member of the women's speculative fiction co-operative the Brazen Hussies. She lives in Oakland, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Althea

Here, Goldstein brings the feel of the mythopoeic into a WWII story. Kisci is a young Jewish girl who's never been outside her insular, rural community. She longs to experience the wider world, and when a red-haired traveler comes to town, he captures her imagination, even though his warnings of doo......more

Goodreads review by Skip

A beautifully written book, deserving of its American Book Award. Lisa Goldstein has succeeded in the difficult genre, magic realism by blending many layers in her novel. First, the main storyline of fantasy and magic as captured in the battle between the traveler Voros (the Red Magician) and the in......more

This tale is set in a small European town. It is so small it doesn’t concern itself with the affairs of the outside world and the outside world is not concerned with it. This Jewish settlement is led by its Rabbi, and while he is integral to the tale, the story is about and told through the eyes of......more