# The Magic Barrel

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- Book: [The Magic Barrel](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-malamud/the-magic-barrel) ([The Magic Barrel.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-malamud/the-magic-barrel.md))
- Authors: [Bernard Malamud](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-malamud)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9943-698-0
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2014-04-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A matchmaker finds love for a would-be rabbi; a shopkeeper dies because he cannot afford a doctor; a little girl steals candy; an angel visits a grieving tailor. Through Malamud's great gifts as a writer - humour and profound concern for the matter of human life - he transmutes the particular struggles of everyday sufferers into a strange poetry.