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'One of our most consistently brilliant, bold and funny writers'
Dave Eggers 'His writing is liberal in every good sense of the
word' Jonathan Franzen A spellbinding thriller. A spy novel. A love
story . . . Prisoner Z, held at a black site in the Negev desert
for a dozen years, has only his guard for company. How does a nice
American Jewish boy from Long Island wind up an Israeli spy working
for Mossad, and later, a traitor to his adopted country? What does
it mean to be loyal? And what does it mean to be a traitor when the
ideals you cherish are betrayed by the country you love? 'Englander
is a wonderfully gifted writer' The Times 'One of the great voices
of our time' Gary Shteyngart
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Fly Already (Paperback)
Etgar Keret; Translated by Sondra Silverston, Jessica Cohen, Miriam Shlesinger, Nathan Englander, …
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Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into
giving you weed? Don't worry, just step into this court room and
call the defendant a murderer. You're a rich, lonely man and you
want the joy of company? Don't worry, just buy up people's
birthdays, and you'll have friends calling every day. You need to
get girls into bed? Don't worry, your writer friend will write you
a very persuasive story. You're standing on the edge of a very high
building, with all of your wretched sorrows? Don't worry, fly
already! In these 22 short stories, wild capers reveal painful
emotional truths, and the bizarre is just another name for the
familiar. Wickedly funny and thrillingly smart, Fly Already is a
collage of absurdity, despair and love, written by veteran
commentator on the circus farce that is life.
Jonathan Safran Foer's and Nathan Englander's spectacular
Haggadah-now in paperback.
Upon hardcover publication, NEW AMERICAN HAGGADAH was praised as a
momentous re-envisioning through prayer, song, and ritual of one of
our oldest, most timeless, and sacred stories-Moses leading the
ancient Israelites out of slavery in Egypt to wander the desert for
40 years before reaching the Promised Land. Featuring a new
translation of the traditional text by Nathan Englander and
provocative essays by a collection of major Jewish writers and
thinkers, it was received not only as a religious document but a
magnificent literary and artistic achievement. Now, after two years
of patience, those readers who asked for a paperback edition have
gotten their wish.
Bringing up a child, lying to the boss, placing an order in a
fast-food restaurant: in Etgar Keret's new collection, daily life
is complicated, dangerous, and full of yearning. In his most
playful and most mature work yet, the living and the dead, silent
children and talking animals, dreams and waking life coexist in an
uneasy world. Overflowing with absurdity, humor, sadness, and
compassion, the tales in" Suddenly, a Knock on the Door" establish
Etgar Keret--declared a "genius" by "The New York Times"--as one of
the most original writers of his generation.
Buenos Aires, 1970s. Kaddish Poznan chips the names off gravestones
for a living, removing traces of disreputable ancestors for their
more respectable kin. His wife Lillian works in insurance, earning
money when people live longer than they fear. When the government
is overthrown in a military coup, their son Pato is arrested by the
police and becomes one of the disappeared. Desperate to find him,
Kaddish and Lillian turn to the Ministry of Special Cases, a
bureaucracy of anguish and false promises, and they discover just
how far they are willing to go to save their son...
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Kaddish.com (Paperback)
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Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews.
When his father dies, it's his responsibility to recite the
Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven
months. To the horror and dismay of his sister, Larry refuses -
imperilling the fate of his father's soul. To appease her, Larry
hatches an ingenious if cynical plan, hiring a stranger through a
website called kaddish.com to recite the prayer and shepherd his
father's soul safely to rest. This is Nathan Englander's freshest
and funniest work to date - a satire that touches, lightly and with
unforgettable humour, on the conflict between religious and secular
worlds, and the hypocrisies that run through both.
Ruchama, a wigmaker from an ultra-orthodox Brooklyn enclave,
journeys into Manhattan for inspiration, frequenting a newsstand
where she flips through forbidden fashion magazines. An elderly Jew
with a long, white beard reluctantly works as a department store
Santa Claus every year - until he can take it no longer. And a
Hasidic man, frustrated by his wife's lack of interest, gets a
dispensation from a rabbi to see a prostitute for the relief of
unbearable urges.
A FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD-winning, simply stunning short-story
collection by one of America's most critically acclaimed young
writers. From the up-and-coming young American writer who has
contributed to McSweeney's and written for THE NEW YORKER comes a
masterful collection of short stories that has already received
rave reviews from many of the most prominent writers working today.
Some of the stories are comic masterpieces, some embody as dark a
vision of the universe as you are likely to encounter, and all of
them showcase a writer grappling with the great questions of modern
life.
Etgar Keret is an ingenious and original master of the short story.
Radical, witty and always unusual, declared a 'genius' by the New
York Times, Keret brings all of his prodigious talent to bear in
this bestselling collection. A man barges into a writer's house
and, holding a gun to his head, demands that he tell him a story,
something to take him away from the real world. A pathological liar
discovers one day that all the lies he tells come true. A young
woman finds a zip in her boyfriend's mouth, and when she opens it
he unfolds to reveal a completely different man inside. Suddenly, a
Knock on the Door is at once Keret's most mature and most playful
work yet, and establishes him as one of the great international
writers of our time.
One of the most stunning literary debuts of our time, these energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories introduce an astonishing new talent.
In the collection's hilarious title story, a Hasidic man gets a special dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute. "The Wig" takes an aging wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful. In "The Tumblers," Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for the death camps and, in a deft, imaginative twist, turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harm's way.
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a work of startling authority and imagination--a book that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad. It hearalds the arrival of a remarkable new storyteller.
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