Moriel Rothman-Zecher

'A mesmeric, enrapturing read' Eimear McBride'Beautiful and original' Colm Tóibín'In startling language filled with the flavor of Yiddish's combination words, [Before All the World] moves forward and back and forward again in a dreamlike trance that acknowledges how the worst suffering exists side by side with the tender beauty of memory, friendship, words and the silences of recognition' Ilana Masad, NPR'Before All the World is poetry as it should be: deliberate while feeling casual, a game with words that is at once playful and deadly serious (sometimes by turns, sometimes truly simultaneously) .