{"product_id":"the-airship-incantations-9781573661874","title":"The Airship: Incantations","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Adam Tipps Weinstein\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: FC2\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: FC2\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA hypnotic tale of a Jewish refugee from Europe and his three years stranded aboard the Vasari\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Airship\u003c\/i\u003e is the entrancing fictional biography of Nathan Cohen, who was deported from the US in 1912 under the Alien Act and spent the first years of World War I on a passenger ship, shuttled between the US and Argentina. Newspapers called him \"The Wandering Jew\" and \"The Man Without a Country,\" speculating he would spend the rest of his life at sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Tipps Weinstein provides a wise, rich, nuanced, and mischievous exploration of Cohen's emigration from Bauska, in the Russian Pale of Settlement, to Las Pampas, in Argentina. \u003ci\u003eThe Airship\u003c\/i\u003e is finally Cohen's wish for a new line of flight, which he realizes when he launches his beloved Laika, aboard a scavenged hot-air balloon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through a series of incantations--spells, songs, folk tales, ghosts, charms--the book traces Cohen's biography across time and a great expanse of geography. The concepts of home and homeland are stretched until they break. Was there ever a home? \u003ci\u003eThe Airship\u003c\/i\u003e incants these paradoxes of location, nationality, faith, and belonging in a bordered and borderless world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FC2","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47573111472279,"sku":"9781573661874","price":1981.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781573661874.webp?v=1774891990","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-airship-incantations-9781573661874","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}