Nathan Englander

The best work yet from the Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges--a political thriller that unfolds in the highly charged territory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and pivots on the complex relationship between a secret prisoner and his guard. A prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched over him a dozen years. An American waitress in Paris. A young Palestinian man in Berlin who strikes up an odd friendship with a wealthy Canadian businessman. And The General, Israel's most controversial leader, who lies dying in a hospital, the only man who knows of the prisoner's existence. From these vastly different lives Nathan Englander has woven a powerful, intensely suspenseful portrait of a nation riven by insoluble conflict, even as the lives of its citizens become fatefully and inextricably entwined--a political thriller of the highest order that interrogates the anguished, violent division between Israelis and Palestinians, and dramatizes the immense moral ambiguities haunting both sides. Who is right, who is wrong--who is the guard, who is truly the prisoner? A tour de force from one of America's most acclaimed voices in contemporary fiction.

Dinner at the Center of the Earth

The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father Larry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews. When his father dies, it is his responsibility as the surviving son to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. To the horror and dismay of his mother and sisters, Larry refuses--thus imperiling the fate of his father's soul. To appease them, and in penance for failing to mourn his father correctly, he hatches an ingenious if cynical plan, hiring a stranger through a website called kaddish.com to recite the daily 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 humor, on the conflict between religious and secular worlds, and the hypocrisies that run through both. A novel about atonement; about spiritual redemption; and about the soul-sickening temptations of the internet, which, like God, is everywhere.

Kaddish.com

In 1976 Buenos Aires, Kaddish Poznan, the outcast son of a whore, and his wife, Lillian, are devastated by the disappearance of their own son, Pato, which forces them into the bleak corridors of the Ministry of Special Cases in search of the truth.

The Ministry of Special Cases

Rooted in Jewish history and the customs of Orthodox life, an anthology of ten stories includes "The Twenty-Seventh Man" about an unpublished writer who mistakenly lands in a Stalinist prison, and "The Gilgul of Park Avenue" about a Protestant who wakes u

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

Stories

Una cena al centro della terra

Per alleviare insopportabili impulsi

Večera v strede zeme

Nicolette Hoekmeijer

Paul Bruijn

Bundel verhalen over luchtige en diepzinnige joodse onderwerpen.

Waar we het over hebben wanneer we het over Anne Frank hebben

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.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Di cosa parliamo quando parliamo di Anne Frank

The setting is a Soviet prison, 1952. Joseph Stalin's secret police have rounded up twenty-six writers, the giants of Yiddish literature in Russia. As judgment looms, a twenty-seventh suddenly appears: Pinchas Pelovits, unpublished and unknown. Baffled by his arrest, he and his cellmates wrestle with the mysteries of party loyalty and politics, culture and identity, and with what it means to write in troubled times. When they discover why the twenty-seventh man is among them, the writers come to realize that even in the face of tyranny, stories still have the power to transcend. In his last act of storytelling, Pelovits asks us: Who writes the eulogy when all the writers are gone?

The Twenty-Seventh Man

Matt Sumell

Mary Otis

Stories by Nathan Englander, Matt Sumell, Mary Otis, Marc Basch, and Steve Edwards

Electric Literature

Buenos Aires um 1970: Kaddisch Poznan, Jude und Sohn einer Hure, hat es im Leben zu nichts Rechtem gebracht. Sein Sohn Pato verachtet ihn, und seine Frau Lillian verdient in einer Versicherungsagentur das Geld für die Familie. Eines Tages wird Kaddischs Sohn verhaftet, und binnen kürzester Zeit verliert sich Patos Spur in der anonymen Apparatur der argentinischen Militärdiktatur. Immer wieder werden Kaddisch und seine Frau im „Ministerium für besondere Fälle“ vorstellig, doch niemand fühlt sich zuständig, niemand will ihnen weiterhelfen ...

Roman

Das Ministerium für besondere Fälle

Was braucht es, damit endlich Frieden herrscht zwischen Israelis und Palästinensern? Der gefeierte jüdisch-amerikanische Schriftsteller Nathan Englander erzählt drei unwahrscheinliche Liebesgeschichten, die auf raffinierte Weise ineinander verschlungen sind und um diese zentrale Frage kreisen. Ein Mossadspion, der schon seit zwölf Jahren in einem geheimen Gefängnis eingekerkert ist, und sein Wärter. Ein General, der als Einziger von diesem Gefangenen weiß, aber seit Jahren im Koma liegt, und seine innigste Vertraute. Und ein Mann und eine Frau, die sich leidenschaftlich lieben, aber ebenso leidenschaftlich für ihr jeweiliges Land kämpfen – er ist Palästinenser, sie Israelin. Von Long Island über Berlin, Paris und Capri bis nach Israel und zum Gazastreifen, dem Mittelpunkt des so lange schon schwelenden Konflikts, führt dieser fesselnde und intensive Roman, der mit melancholischem Witz von Loyalität und Verrat, von Gewalt und Rache erzählt und von der schönsten aller Utopien träumt.

Dinner am Mittelpunkt der Erde

Nathan Englander wurde 1970 in New York geboren und wuchs in einer jüdischen Gemeinde auf Long Island auf. Er studierte in Jerusalem und in New York Englische Literatur und Jüdische Geschichte und lebte anschließend einige Zeit in Argentinien und in Israel. Neben dem Schreiben arbeitete er auch als Fotograf und Filmemacher. Nathan Englander ist Autor des Erzählbands »Zur Linderung unerträglichen Verlangens« und des Romans »Das Ministerium für besondere Fälle«. Er lebt derzeit in New York.

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