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ALLAKAZZAM! by Daniel Abelman, with cover art and illustrations by Catherine Edmunds, is now available from BeWrite Books and all the usual booksellers. If you would like a copy signed by the artist, please leave your contact details in the guestbook here.
Wickedly humorous Daniel Abelman is our guide on a magical mystery tour of African and Jewish culture, apartheid, the holocaust, telepathy, police corruption, rigged boxing, exploding dogs and orthodontics ... while a lovable psychic conman tries to peddle a miraculously discovered manuscript to gullible publishers with $$$ in their eyes.
The astute reader navigates a labyrinth of highways and cul-de-sacs from the African bush to Jerusalem, via Germany, solving riddle after riddle (never sure if he, too, is falling under the trickster's hypnotic spell), until he ultimately finds himself as though waking from a memorable dream.
Abelman writes with an enchanted pen. He shatters the rules of the novelist's art by creating new and more ingenious ones of his own, pulling rabbits from hats where other authors don't even have hats.
ALLAKAZZAM! is accompanied
by three of Abelman's haunting short stories.
Abelman's delivery is a unique fusion of East Europe Diaspora and Johannesburg Tsotsi, with more than a smidgeon of psychic angst; his beguiling characters step, fully formed, out of the synagogues, township shanties and shebeens, and his sense of place resonates with authenticity.
Michael J Hunt, The African Journals of Petros Amm