Summary of Shtetl Love Song
In his autobiographical novel “Shtetl Love Song”, Grigory Kanovich evokes the lives and traditions of the Jewish community in Janova, a small Lithuanian town, which had a Jewish population of about 80%. The novel covers the years from the 1920s to the invasion of the Nazis in 1941.
Reasons to read Shtetl Love Song
Shtetl Love Song” is a deeply moving tribute to the author’s youth in Janova, capturing a traditional Jewish way of life that has since vanished. Grigory Kanovich (also known as Grigorijus Kanovičius) wrote the novel in Russian. He won the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts in 2014. “Shtetl Love Song” was named Lithuanian Book of the Year in 2013.
Setting: Janova (Lithuania)
Original title: Местечковый романс
Year of publication: 2013
Nr of pages: 310
