"The Devil's Charm" is a relentless yet not cruel narrative about the demise of the Jewish shtetl Mishkine and how the ancient threads connecting the lives of different people are torn apart. This novel is set in a time when, as one of the characters puts it, the devil pays in cash while the Lord God deals in biblical covenants.

In Jewish cemeteries, the dead fear resurrection, dreading that someone might come for them...