A review by arachne_reads
Tales of the Wild East by Joann Sfar

5.0

Sfar yet again shows us people's cruelty and tenderness, their playfulness, craftiness, their hard edges. I am no longer surprised by his ability to dive into the human condition through his varied Jewish background; he's spoiled me on it and set the bar for most of the rest of what I read these days. All of the characters have a richness about them, a realness. I was intrigued that Yaacov had so much in him of the cat from "The Rabbi's Cat." I thought myself clever for noticing, and then Sfar points it out in his notes at the end; oh silly reader, I am. Among my very favorites.