| The Circumcision Contributor(s): Dalos, Gyorgy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0714531235 ISBN-13: 9780714531236 Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2006 Annotation: Twelve-year-old Robi Singer and best friend Gabor Blum are the only boys in their class who have yet to be circumcised. Robi is worried. What if the knife should slip? What will the others think in the showers? Will he find a wife? Is there plastic surgery to fix damage of this sort? Should he have the circumcision? Everyone has an opinion-from his teachers to his eccentric grandmother and hypochondriac mother-the final decision is Robi's. Gyrgy Dalos, born in Budapest in 1943, was arrested in 1968 for "activities against the state" and his work was banned for 19 years. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005055328 |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 6.74" W x 7.58" (0.25 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Sex & Gender - Masculine - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Twelve-year-old Robi Singer and best friend Gabor Blum are the only boys in their class who have yet to be circumcised. Robi is worried. What if the knife should slip? What will the others think in the showers? Will he find a wife? Is there plastic surgery to fix damage of this sort? Should he have the circumcision? Everyone has an opinion--from his teachers to his eccentric grandmother and hypochondriac mother--the final decision is Robi's. Gy rgy Dalos, born in Budapest in 1943, was arrested in 1968 for "activities against the state" and his work was banned for 19 years. |