A Heaven of Others

A Heaven of Others

Joshua Cohen2008
Fiction. Illustrated by Michael Hafftka. Being the True Account of a Jewish Boy Jonathan Schwarzstein of Tchernichovsky Street, Jerusalem and his Post-Mortem Adventures in & Reflections on the Muslim Heaven: as Said to Me and Said through Meby an Angel of the One True God Revealed to Me at Night as if in a Dream. "Joshua Cohen has created a visionary novel that is terrifying and heartbreaking and humbling in its luminous brilliance. In my view, it firmly places the author on the same level as Kafka"--Michael Disend.
Sign up to use

Reviews

Photo of Donald
Donald@riversofeurope
4 stars
Feb 25, 2022

I read 3/4 of this book straight through. It is disturbing and magical, and the illustrations work well with the text. This book is about a ten year old Jewish boy from Jerusalem who is killed by a suicide bomber. After dying, he finds himself in Muslim heaven, where he has to navigate being in the wrong place, what to do with the virgins given to him, and so on. I cannot wait to read Witz!

This book appears on the shelf E novel

American Gods
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Mu...
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Neuromancer
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

This book appears on the shelf Fiction

Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
A Little Life
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Siddhartha
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories by Charles ...
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger