The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Joe Kavalier is a Jewish artist who is also trained in escaping Houdini-esque, smuggling to New York from the invasion of Prague and landed. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for partners to create heroes, stories and art to get the latest American novelty - comic books. His own fears and dreams, Kavalier ... more

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.

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.