Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy

by Gary Barwin

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A middle-aged Jewish man who fantasizes about being a cowboy goes on an eccentric quest across Europe after the 1941 Nazi invasion of Lithuania in this wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the bestselling author of Yiddish for Pirates, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Motl is middle-aged, poor, nerdy, Jewish and in desperate need of a shave. Since having his balls shot cleanly off as a youth in WWI, he's lived a quiet life at home in Vilnius with his shrewd and shrewish mom, Gitl, losing himself in the masculine fantasy world of cowboy novels by...Read more
  • ISBN10 0735279527
  • ISBN13 9780735279520
  • Publish Date 9 March 2021
  • Publish Status Remaindered
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Random House Canada