I may be in the minority here, but I actually liked this volume better than the first one. The cat isn't quite as snarky and funny as he is in the first volume (even though he manages to take a few stabs at the ignorant humans), and that's a bit of a shame. However, the topics in this one move the philosophical ponderings from the private world to the communal world and I really enjoyed that shift. Also, the mythological elements (Malka's stories and the search for the Ethiopian Jersualem) made the stories much more universal. This volume contains the two stories Le Paradis Terrestre and Jérusalem d'Afrique.

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bookoholic13 | May 13, 2009 |

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knepveu | May 12, 2009 |

I found this one less compelling that the first Rabbi's Cat. The story shifted from individual debates to metaphorical stories. All my critiques aside, the gift that the asp was to give Malka the lion and his wife is an act of true friendship. As someone who has had both pet snakes and cats, I found the asp to act out of character, but a interesting choice in contrast to the biblical snake who tempted Eve. (

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The Rabbi's Cat (5.5|Omnibus 4-5)

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Eisner Award nominee (Best U.S. Edition of International Material, 2009)

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The Rabbi's Cat 2 collects the fourth and fifth books in the series, originally published in France. Please do not combine with Le Chat du Rabbin, tome 2 : Le Malka des Lions, which is the second book in the series.

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Joann Sfar's beloved, humorous, and wise talking cat is back for more beautifully illustrated adventures in Algiers and across Africa in the 1930s. While the rabbi is away, his cat tags along with Malka of the Lions (the rabbi's enigmatic cousin), who roams the desert with his ferocious-on-demand lion. Some believe Malka to be a pious Jew, others think he's a shrewd womanizer, but the cat will be the one to discover the surprising truth.

Back in Algiers, the rabbi's daughter, Zlabya, and her new husband fill the house with their fighting, while the city around them fills with a rising tide of anti-Semitism. On a whim, the rabbi's cat, the rabbi, a sheikh (also a cousin of the rabbi), and a very misplaced Russian painter set out on a fantastic journey (even encountering a young reporter named Tintin in the Congo) in search of an African Jerusalem. It turns out to be very fortuitous that the rabbi's cat is not just a talking cat, but a multilingual talking cat.

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