The Ministry of Special Cases
By Nathan EnglanderThe long-awaited novel from Nathan Englander, author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. EnglanderÂ?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 Cases casts a powerful spell. In the heart of ArgentinaÂ?s Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan struggles with a son who wonÂ?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 EnglanderÂ?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 governmentÂ?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 EnglanderÂ?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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Book details
- Hardcover
- 339 pages
- English
- 0375404937
- 9780375404931
About Nathan Englander
nathan englander (born 1970) is an american short story writer and novelist. his debut short story collection, for the relief of unbearable urges, was publ Read More about Nathan Englander
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