内容简介
As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, Liebestod returns us to Leslie Epstein s most compelling literary character, that European migr and meagerly successful musician, Leib Goldkorn, whose final years as a randy centenarian in New York City end in one of the most memorable swan songs in recent fiction. Invited back to his hometown in Moravia, Leib discovers that his father is not a hops magnate but actually one of the twentieth century s greatest composers, Gustav Mahler. Returning to New York with a bevy of rabbinical cousins, Leib, now besotted by a world-famed diva, is determined to bring to the Metropolitan Opera Rubezahl, the only opera his real father ever wrote. Yet the much-heralded premiere turns into a fiasco of unimaginable proportions, all breathtakingly relayed by a stunned newspaper correspondent who survives to report on this monumental disaster. With Liebestod, Epstein once again illuminates the mystery of our common humanity and mortality (New York Times).
作者简介
The surname Epstein (also Eppstein or Epshtein) is one of the oldest Ashkenazi Jewish family names. It is probably derived from the German town of Eppstein, in Hesse; the place-name was probably derived from Gaulish apa 'water' (in the sense of a river) and German -stein 'stone' (in the sense of a hill). == Reputation == The Jewish Encyclopedia from 1906 noted that "the number of individual Epsteins who have achieved prominence is [...] large." According to The Spectator contributor Angela Epste
Leslie是一个常见英文人名，中文翻译为莱斯利、莱斯莉、莱丝莉、莱斯里、里斯利。
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