The North of God

With this novella Steve Stern matches his reverential understanding of ancient yiddish storytelling´s power against something he´s never written about before: The Holocaust.
The result is a mesmerizing tour-de-force: in a boxcar crammed with jews headed to a concentration camp, one man attempts to summon up a story vital enough to displace the horror. The story that comes out is ultimately a swirling, sweeping saga about the stirring obstinacy of the human spirit.