Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum

A lively novel which is a retro epic in the genre of magic realism. Among the contents are the interwar cabaret scene in Munich and Berlin, seen through the eyes of a seven-foot Jewish giantess. The tapestry of Jewish culture, evoked through food, theatre, clothes and custom, at the point at which it is about to unravel.

• Prologue
• bone girl
• Storm
• Esau
• bats and peacocks
• grandmother Brecht takes the upper hand
• ant men/moth women
• malkeston’s
• cooking up a storm…
• snowflakes & gingerbread hearts
• the Jugendstil room
• bakery of lace
• suiting myself
• the house of clocks
• theater hoffmann
• ghost boy
• under violet skies
• spitting cherrystones
• stockings and stars
• Green Phoenix
• mrs kowalke’s wedding dress
• potatoes & pomegranates
• the city of confiscated memory
• the banquet of Esther Rosenbaum
• clocks and angels epilogue
• Acknowledgements