Met Opera adapts Michael Chabon’s Jewish novel ‘Kavalier & Clay’ for the stage - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Met Opera adapts Michael Chabon’s Jewish novel ‘Kavalier & Clay’ for the stage - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jewish author Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” is part comic-book origin story, part immigrant saga and part love letter to New York City at its most scrappy and dazzling. Published in 2000, the novel follows the trajectory of Joe Kavalier, a Houdini-obsessed escape artist who flees Nazi-occupied Prague, and his quick-witted Brooklyn cousin, Sammy Clay. Together they conjure The Escapist…