The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content)

The award-winning magical adventure of Michael Chavan's masterpiece The Kavalier & Clay is a genius American epic by Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. Special prize was awarded from Michael Chabon.

The book "The Surprising Excitement Book" (Newsweek) is a story-telling victory in which Chabon's "The New York Review of Books" and "Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" are original, imaginative, began in New York in 1939 , Vibrant, charming novel. A young escape artist and an up and coming magician, Joe Cavalier, arrived at the doorway of his cousin Sammy Clay. Hitler's long shadow is depressed in Europe, America is pleased to enter the golden age of manga books, and in the far corner of Brooklyn, Sami is looking for ways to earn money. He found an ideal partner of a transcendent artistically talented Joe. And they started adventuring together, brought them deep into the heart of Manhattan and became the center of American vintage ambitions. From the general fears, the dreams and the desires of the two teen boys they develop a hero's comic story, fascism to escape the realist, and a beautiful mysterious lunar deity moon (temporary singer of the night) To do. From the city of Brooklyn to the top of the Empire State Building, Joe and Sami vividly opened up my life and career like cyan and magenta inks. Beyond the continent and era, this wonderful book, published by one of the best American writers, is still a decisive novel in contemporary American times.

PEN / Faulkner Prize, National Book Critics Award, Los Angeles Times Award Finalist

There are two Jewish cousins ​​in Michael Savon's Pulitzer Prize-winning Novel 'Cavalyl and Clay' s Amazing Adventure '(2000) - Cavallier and Sami Clay - they created Manga with Hodini style Superhero: Escape. These boys, based in part on real-life superman creators Joe Schuster and Jerry Siegel, tried to avoid their problems through their compelling cartoon book pages. The family of Cavalier was abandoned in Prague under Nazi occupation and Clay who was a child of Brooklyn suffered from secret homosexual impulses and absence of father. In the context of the Golden Age of 1940's adventure comics, swing music and pulp novels, the amazing adventure of Cavalyl and Clay was about the postwar melancholy, the optimistic tragedy of escape, the transformation and release of New York before the war. Chabon captures the struggle of dreams between good and evil in comics and American life.

The amazing adventure of Kavalier & Clay is a novel written by Michael Chabon, a Jewish American writer in 2000. In 2001, he received the Pulitzer Prize in the novel. This story is the story of two Jewish cousins, a Czech artist, Joe Cavallier and Brooklyn-born writer Sami Clay. During and after World War II. In the novel, Cavalier and Clay became the hero of the comic industry from its birth to the Golden Age. Kavalier & Clay announced "almost praise", became the best selling book of the New York Times and was nominated for the 2000 National Review and Critic Circle Award and PEN / Faulkner Novel Prize. In 2006, Bret Easton Ellis announced a novel as "one of three books of my generation", and in 2007, New York Review of the Book Calling this novel is a wonderful work of Chavan.