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The Ministry of Special Cases

Door Nathan Englander

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#188847
Titel
The Ministry of Special Cases
Auteur
Englander, Nathan
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Alfred A. Knopf, NY
Jaar van uitgave
2007
ISBN10
0375404937
ISBN13
9780375404931
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
The long-awaited novel from Nathan Englander, author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. Englander? s wondrous and much-heralded collection of stories won the 2000 Pen/Malamud Award and was translated into more than a dozen languages.

From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. In the heart of Argentina? s Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan struggles with a son who won? t accept him; strives for a wife who forever saves him; and spends his nights protecting the good name of a community that denies his existence--and denies a checkered history that only Kaddish holds dear. When the nightmare of the disappeared children brings the Poznan family to its knees, they are thrust into the unyieldin... (Lees verder)g corridors of the Ministry of Special Cases, the refuge of last resort.

Nathan Englander? s first novel is a timeless story of fathers and sons. In a world turned upside down, where the past and the future, the nature of truth itself, all take shape according to a corrupt government? s whims, one man--one spectacularly hopeless man--fights to overcome his history and his name, and, if for only once in his life, to put things right. Here again are all the marvelous qualities for which Englander? s first book was immediately beloved: his exuberant wit and invention, his cosmic sense of the absurd, his genius for balancing joyfulness and despair. Through the devastation of a single family, Englander captures, indelibly, the grief of a nation. The Ministry of Special Cases, like Englander? s stories before it, is a celebration of our humanity, in all its weakness, and--despite that--hope.
Pagina's
339
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 6,50

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