We love the way Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer’s The Magician of Lublin captures both the wonder of illusion and the truth of human frailty. Yasha the magician -sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat, escape artist -slips between worlds, faith, and desire. Now, though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escape - from his marriage, his homeland and the last tendrils of his father's religion. Set in Warsaw and the shtetls of the 1870s, Bashevis Singer's novel is a haunting psychological portrait of a man's flight from love.