For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Title | For the Relief of Unbearable Urges PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Englander |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2009-12-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307569519 |
Energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories from Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. 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.
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Title | For the Relief of Unbearable Urges PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Englander |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2020-06-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1474611109 |
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.
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Title | For the Relief of Unbearable Urges PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Englander |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | 158 |
Release | 2011-06-16 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0571267343 |
Acclaimed as an astonishing debut, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a collection of nine delightfully irreverent stories that range from Stalin's Russia to contemporary New York. Wise and compassionate, outrageous and wrenchingly sad, they place Nathan Englander firmly in the company of Bellow, Malamud, Singer and Roth.
The Twenty-Seventh Man
Title | The Twenty-Seventh Man PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Englander |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Total Pages | 50 |
Release | 2014-08-25 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0822229978 |
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?
What We Talk about when We Talk about Anne Frank
Title | What We Talk about when We Talk about Anne Frank PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Englander |
Publisher | Knopf Publishing Group |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307958701 |
The author of the sensational national bestseller "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges" and "The Ministry of Special Cases" returns with a commanding new collection of short stories.
kaddish.com
Title | kaddish.com PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Englander |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2020-02-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0525434054 |
When his father dies, it falls to Larry—the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews—to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. But to the horror and dismay of his sister, Larry refuses, imperiling the fate of his father’s soul. To appease her, he hires a stranger through a website called kaddish.com to say the prayer instead—a decision that will have profound, and very personal, repercussions. Irreverent, hilarious, and wholly irresistible, Nathan Englander’s tale of a son who makes a diabolical compromise brilliantly captures the tensions between tradition and modernity.
The Ministry of Special Cases
Title | The Ministry of Special Cases PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Englander |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | 342 |
Release | 2011-06-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0571267335 |
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. As Argentina's Dirty War unfolds around them, their sometimes hilarious misadventures are soon replaced by something much darker. A visit to the dreaded Ministry of Special Cases is only the start of Englander's stunning vision of a nation in the hold of corruption and torture, a place where absurdity, despair and hope are the end products of a bureaucracy run out of control.