The Rabbi's Cat (Pantheon Graphic Novels)

The Rabbi's Cat (Pantheon Graphic Novels)

The preeminent work by one of France€s most celebrated young comics artists, <i>The Rabbi€s Cat</i> tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat€“a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness. <br>In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak. To his master€s consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies (the first being that he didn€t eat the parrot). The rabbi vows to educate him in the ways of the Torah, while the cat insists on studying the kabbalah and having a Bar Mitzvah. They consult the rabbi€s rabbi, who maintains that a cat can€t be Jewish€“but the cat, as always, knows better. <br>Zlabya falls in love with a dashing young rabbi from Paris, and soon master and cat, having overcome their shared self-pity and jealousy, are accompanying the newlyweds to France to meet Zlabya€s cosmopolitan in-laws. Full of drama and adventure, their trip invites countless opportunities for the rabbi and his cat to grapple with all the important€“and trivial€“details of life.<br>Rich with the colors, textures, and flavors of Algeria€s Jewish community, <i>The Rabbi€s Cat</i> brings a lost world vibrantly to life€“a time and place where Jews and Arabs coexisted€“and peoples it with endearing and thoroughly human characters, and one truly unforgettable cat.