Review of Contemporary Fiction, April 1st, 2002
Kate Bernheimer. The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold. FC2, 2001. 192 pp. Paper: $11.95. The tales in The Complete Tales ofKetzia Gold, Kate Bernheimer's intriguing first novel, are the stories Ketzia tells about herself as child and adult and the stories an omniscient narrator tells about her. Much of Bernheimer's book is based on traditional German, Russian, and Yiddish fairy and folk tales. She updates these by changing time, setting and events, and replacing the innocent-or not so-characters of the original tale with Ketzia, Jewish and born in America in the late sixties or early seventies, ...
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