Terwyl voorberei word vir die partytjie wat hy gereel het om sy oogappel-jongste, Tirza, se laaste skooldag te vier, leer die leser gaandeweg dat alles nie pluis is in Jurgen Hofmeester se skynbare rykmansbestaan nie, en dat Hofmeester eintlik verbete vasklou aan die laaste bietjie wat hy nog van sy skyngeluk oorhet.

Jorgen Hofmeester once had it all, but recently has been abandoned by his wife, watched his oldest daughter move away, lost his publishing job, and had his savings evaporate. At least he still has Tirza, his youngest daughter. But now she's going away to Africa, from where she'll never return.

The new novel by the internationally acclaimed author- "a farce of nuclear proportions"("Vanity Fair")
Arnon Grunberg is one of the most subtly outrageous provocateurs in world literature. "The Jewish Messiah," which chronicles the evolution of one Xavier Radek from malcontent grandson of a former SS officer, to Jewish convert, to co- translator of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" into Yiddish, to Israeli politician and Israel's most unlikely prime minister, is his most outrageous work yet. Taking on the most well-guarded pieties and taboos of our age, "The Jewish Messiah" is both a great love story and a grotesque farce that forces a profound reckoning with the limits of human guilt, cruelty, and suffering. It is without question Arnon Grunberg's masterpiece.