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.
Dinner at the Center of the Earth
Title | Dinner at the Center of the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Englander |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2017-09-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1524732745 |
A political thriller set against the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, from the Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year “Blends elements of spy thriller and love story, magical realism, and an all-too-real history of one of the world’s most intractable problems: peace between Israel and its neighbors." —The Boston Globe In the Negev desert, a nameless prisoner languishes in a secret cell, his only companion the guard who has watched over him for a dozen years. Meanwhile, the prisoner’s arch nemesis—The General, Israel’s most controversial leader—lies dying in a hospital bed. From Israel and Gaza to Paris, Italy, and America, Englander provides a kaleidoscopic view of the prisoner’s unlikely journey to his cell. Dinner at the Center of the Earth is a tour de force—a powerful, wryly funny, intensely suspenseful portrait of a nation riven by insoluble conflict, and the man who improbably lands at the center of it all.
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.
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.
kaddish.com
Title | kaddish.com PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Englander |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
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.
New American Haggadah
Title | New American Haggadah PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-03-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780316069878 |
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.
Peep Show
Title | Peep Show PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Englander |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 28 |
Release | 2015-05-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101970049 |
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Allen Fein— née Ari Feinberg—is on his way to Port Authority when he hears it: “Girls,” the hawker says. “Three-hundred-and-sixty-degree all-around stage.” This is the Times Square Allen remembers. But he’s a married man now. Well, maybe one little peek . . . From one of the most dazzling voices in contemporary literature, “Peep Show” is a funny, surprising, surreal story of sexual longing and the deeper shadows of desire. In the peep show, you never know who’s behind the curtain. A selection from the acclaimed volume What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. An eBook short.