Adam Kirsch

2026 PEN AMERICA AWARD FOR TRANSLATION FINALIST . From "one of the great-if not the greatest-contemporary Yiddish novelists" (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march of modernity. A NEW YORK TIMES BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK . A KIRKUS BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR . SHORTLISTED FOR THE FREUDENHEIM TRANSLATION PRIZE "A great beard novel .