The celebrated novel of a modern classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, finalist for many other prestigious literary awards, book of the decade according to Entertainment Weekly; “War and Peace” in the American way - without aristocrats, but with superheroes, an epic story of friendship, love and loneliness, human tragedy and new art. Kavaler & Clay is the creative duo of the brilliant draftsman Josef Kavaler and his New York cousin Sammy Kleiman, a writer with a truly limitless imagination. The illusionist's student Joseph (in his new homeland - Joe) makes his first successful escape: from German-occupied Prague, in the same coffin with the mystical symbol of the Jewish people - the Prague golem. Joe and Sam begin to publish a comic book about the superhero Escapist - and the more alarming the news coming from Europe, the more illusory Joe's hopes of saving his relatives remaining in Prague, the harder the Escapist hits the Nazis... The novel is published in a new translation and with additional materials - deleted scenes, a new afterword from author and much more. The book contains obscene language.