Chaim Skibelski is dead.Or is he?

In the opening pages, he is shot and pushed into a pit along with his fellow Jews in a village in Poland.Chaim, accompanied by his rabbi in the form of a crow, escapes to wander among the living, unable to join the World To Come.His journey is divided into three parts.

In the first, he revisits his old home, finding that a Polish family has taken over his business and personal effects.Here he meets Ola, a dying girl who can see him though her family can't.In the second part, he meets up with his old village and his family in a luxurious hotel that appears too good to be true.

Finally, Chaim encounters Zalman and Kalman to complete a task involving the moon, the rabbi, and Skibelski himself.It is with this last step that the protagonist might finally find the peace that death should bring.Utterly different and surreal, this first novel takes an original approach to the Holocaust and leaves a lasting impression.

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