The Rabbi’s Cat (Pantheon Graphic Novels)

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The preeminent work by certainly one of France’s most celebrated young comics artists, The Rabbi’s Cat tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat–a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness.
In Algeria within the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the circle of relatives parrot and gains the ability to speak. To his master’s consternation, the cat instantly begins to tell lies (the first being that he didn’t eat the parrot). The rabbi vows to educate him within the ways of the Torah, at the same time as 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 all the time, knows better.
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 travel invites countless opportunities for the rabbi and his cat to grapple with all of the vital–and trivial–details of life.
Rich with the colors, textures, and flavors of Algeria’s Jewish community, The Rabbi’s Cat 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 actually unforgettable cat.

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