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| 008 | 030309s2007 nyu 000 1 eng | ||
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_aPS3555.N424 _bM56 2007 |
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| 100 | 1 | _aEnglander, Nathan | |
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_aThe Ministry of Special Cases _c/ Nathan Englander |
| 250 | _a1st ed | ||
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_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2007. |
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_a339 p. _c; 25 cm. |
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| 520 | _aThe long-awaited novel from Nathan Englander, author ofFor the Relief of Unbearable Urges. Englander's wondrous and much-heralded collection of stories won the 2000 Pen/Malamud Award and was translated into more than a dozen languages. From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires,The Ministry of Special Casescasts a powerful spell. In the heart of Argentina's Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan struggles with a son who won't accept him; strives for a wife who forever saves him; and spends his nights protecting the good name of a community that denies his existence--and denies a checkered history that only Kaddish holds dear. When the nightmare of the disappeared children brings the Poznan family to its knees, they are thrust into the unyielding corridors of the Ministry of Special Cases, the refuge of last resort. Nathan Englander's first novel is a timeless story of fathers and sons. In a world turned upside down, where the past and the future, the nature of truth itself, all take shape according to a corrupt government's whims, one man--one spectacularly hopeless man--fights to overcome his history and his name, and, if for only once in his life, to put things right. Here again are all the marvelous qualities for which Englander's first book was immediately beloved: his exuberant wit and invention, his cosmic sense of the absurd, his genius for balancing joyfulness and despair. Through the devastation of a single family, Englander captures, indelibly, the grief of a nation.The Ministry of Special Cases,like Englander's stories before it, is a celebration of our humanity, in all its weakness, and--despite that--hope. | ||
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_aDisappeared persons _x--Fiction |
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_aMissing children _v--Fiction |
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_aHuman rights _z-Argentina _v--Fiction |
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_aJews _v--Fiction |
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_aArgentina _x-History _y-1955-1983 _x-Fiction |
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