The Ministry of Special Cases
$27.97
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2020
Summary
Buenos Aires, 1970s. 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. When the government is overthrown in a military coup, their son Pato is arrested by the police and becomes one of the disappeared. Desperate to find him, Kaddish and Lillian turn to the Ministry of Special Cases, a bureaucracy of anguish and false pr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474611114 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474611117 |
| Author: | Nathan Englander |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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Powerful and engaging … shot through with a dark humour, which makes it all the more moving
Powerful and engaging … shot through with a dark humour, which makes it all the more moving
* The Times *Who is this Nathan Englander, so young in novelist years, but already possessed of an old masters voice? One reads this novel in awe of Englander’s talent * New York Times *Wry and haunting … Englander’s novel is a striking memorial to the victims of political oppression * Sunday Times *Englander writes with exquisite precision * Guardian *At times so heartbreaking that you want to turn away * Sunday Telegraph *About The Author
Nathan Englander
Nathan Englander is the author of the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, an international best seller, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, and the novels The Ministry of Special Cases and Dinner at the Center of the Earth. His books have been translated into twenty-two languages. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Malamud Award, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2013. He is Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter.
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