Dan Jacobson je prozaik, poviedkar, kritik a esejista, ktorého rané diela sa zameriavali na juhoafrické témy. Neskôr sa jeho tvorba rozšírila o fantasy, fiktívne spracovanie historických udalostí, pamäti, kritické eseje a cestopisy. Jeho štýl je charakteristický hlbokým vhľadom do ľudskej psychiky a spoločenských otázok, často s nádychom irónie a intelektuálnej bystrosti. Jacobsonovo dielo skúma témy identity, pamäti a stretu kultúr, pričom si zachováva jedinečnú naratívnu silu a precízny jazyk.
Celia Dinan died some two hundred years ago – back in the twenty-first century. As her life is rediscovered it becomes apparent that she is the author of a powerful and passionate tale – a tale which only she could have written but which 'everywoman' will painfully acknowledge as her own.
Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assistant who travels with him and a woman in every town. Now though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escape - from his marriage, his homeland and the last tendrils of his father's religion. Set in Warsaw and the shtetls of the 1870s, Isaac Bashevis Singer's second novel is a haunting psychological portrait of a man's flight from love.