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The Ministry of Special Cases 1st Edition by Nathan Englander
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition
- Book Series
- N/A
- Features
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
- Country/Region of Manufacture
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- ISBN
- 9780375404931
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Product Information
The long-awaited first novel from the author of the sensational short-story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a stunning historical tale set at the start of Argentina's Dirty War, a hallucinatory journey into a forbidden city and a world of terror.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375404937
ISBN-13
9780375404931
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57157648
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Literary, Historical, Jewish
Book Title
Ministry of Special Cases
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2in.
Item Length
9.5in.
Item Weight
22.8 Oz
Weight
22.8 Oz
Item Width
6.6in.
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2006-048731
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"The fate of Argentina's Jews during the 1976-83 "Dirty War" is depicted with blistering emotional intensity in this start first novel. . . . Englander's story collection promised a brilliant future, and that promise is here fulfilled beyond all expectations." -Kirkus Reviews(starred review) "This is a staggeringly mature work, gracefully and knowledgeably set in a milieu far from the author's native New York. . . . Fourp's best describe this work: poignant, powerful, political, and yet personal." -Booklist(starred review), "The fate of Argentina's Jews during the 1976-83 "Dirty War" is depicted with blistering emotional intensity in this stark first novel. . . . Englander's story collection promised a brilliant future, and that promise is here fulfilled beyond all expectations." Kirkus Reviews(starred review) "This is a staggeringly mature work, gracefully and knowledgeably set in a milieu far from the author's native New York. . . . Fourp's best describe this work: poignant, powerful, political, and yet personal." Booklist(starred review) "[A] harrowing and brilliant first novel . . . Englander's great gifts are an absurdist sense of humor and a brisk, almost breezy narrative voice. He handles his unbearable subjects with the comic panache of a vaudeville artist, before delivering the final, devastating blow." Bookforum "Resonates of Singer, yes, but also of Bernard Malamud and Lewis Carroll, plus the Kafka who wroteThe Trial. . . You will wonder how a novel about parents looking for and failing to find their lost son, about a machinery of state determined to abolish not only the future but also the past, can be horrifying and funny at the same time. Somehow . . . this one is." Harper's Magazine "A mesmerizing rumination on loss and memory. . . . It's a family drama layered with agonized and often comical filial connections that are stretched to the snapping point by terrible circumstance . . . builds with breathtaking, perfectly wrought pacing and calm, terrifying logic." Los Angeles Times "Englander writes with increasing power and authority . . . Gogol, I. B. Singer and Orwell all come to mind, but Englander's book is unique in its layering of Jewish tradition and totalitarian obliteration." Publishers Weekly "This chilling book of intrigue examines the slow obliteration of culture and families perpetuated by forces seeking absolute political power. Highly recommended." Library Journal "Englander secures his status as a powerful storyteller with this book about the disappearance of the son of a down-and-out Jewish hustler during Argentina's Dirty War in the seventies." Details "Englander's prose moves along with a tempered ferocity -- simple yet deceptively incisive. . . . Englander's book isn't so much about the search for a lost boy. It's about fathers and sons and mothers and faith and community and war and hope and shame. Yes, that's a lot to pack into 339 pages. But not when a book reads at times with the urgency of a thriller." Esquire "Wonderful . . . Since much of the book's power comes from its relentlessly unfolding plot, it's not fair even to tell who disappears, let alone whether that person reappears. . . . Englander maintains an undertone of quirky comedy almost to the end of his story." Newsweek "[Englander's] journey into the black hole of paradox would have done Kafka or Orwell proud." People "Brace yourself for heartbreak . . . most of the story is so convincingly told that it's hard to imagine that Englander hasn't weathered political persecution himself." Time Out New York "A vibrant, exquisite, quirky and devastating historical noveland a gift to readers. . . . This is a story propelled by secrets, and part of Englander's achievement i, "The fate of Argentina's Jews during the 1976-83 "Dirty War" is depicted with blistering emotional intensity in this stark first novel. . . . Englander's story collection promised a brilliant future, and that promise is here fulfilled beyond all expectations." -Kirkus Reviews(starred review) "This is a staggeringly mature work, gracefully and knowledgeably set in a milieu far from the author's native New York. . . . Fourp's best describe this work: poignant, powerful, political, and yet personal." -Booklist(starred review) "[A] harrowing and brilliant first novel . . . Englander's great gifts are an absurdist sense of humor and a brisk, almost breezy narrative voice. He handles his unbearable subjects with the comic panache of a vaudeville artist, before delivering the final, devastating blow." Bookforum "Resonates of Singer, yes, but also of Bernard Malamud and Lewis Carroll, plus the Kafka who wroteThe Trial. . . You will wonder how a novel about parents looking for and failing to find their lost son, about a machinery of state determined to abolish not only the future but also the past, can be horrifying and funny at the same time. Somehow . . . this one is." Harper's Magazine "A mesmerizing rumination on loss and memory. . . . It's a family drama layered with agonized and often comical filial connections that are stretched to the snapping point by terrible circumstance . . . builds with breathtaking, perfectly wrought pacing and calm, terrifying logic." Los Angeles Times "Englander writes with increasing power and authority . . . Gogol, I. B. Singer and Orwell all come to mind, but Englander's book is unique in its layering of Jewish tradition and totalitarian obliteration." Publishers Weekly "This chilling book of intrigue examines the slow obliteration of culture and families perpetuated by forces seeking absolute political power. Highly recommended." Library Journal "Englander secures his status as a powerful storyteller with this book about the disappearance of the son of a down-and-out Jewish hustler during Argentina's Dirty War in the seventies." Details "Englander's prose moves along with a tempered ferocity -- simple yet deceptively incisive. . . . Englander's book isn't so much about the search for a lost boy. It's about fathers and sons and mothers and faith and community and war and hope and shame. Yes, that's a lot to pack into 339 pages. But not when a book reads at times with the urgency of a thriller." Esquire "Wonderful . . . Since much of the book's power comes from its relentlessly unfolding plot, it's not fair even to tell who disappears, let alone whether that person reappears. . . . Englander maintains an undertone of quirky comedy almost to the end of his story." Newsweek "[Englander's] journey into the black hole of paradox would have done Kafka or Orwell proud." People "Brace yourself for heartbreak . . . most of the story is so convincingly told that it's hard to imagine that Englander hasn't weathered political persecution himself." Time Out New York "A vibrant, exquisite, quirky and devastating historical noveland a gift to readers. . . . This is a story propelled by secrets, and part of Englander's achievement i
Publication Date
2007-04-24
Dewey Decimal
Fic
Lc Classification Number
Ps3555.N424m56 2007
Number of Pages
352 Pages
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- i***i (38)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseWasn't really looking for these 2 books, but I have enjoyed browsing thru them... good addition to my collection of all things Oriental, especially Japanese and Chinese
- w***- (62)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchasewas damaged in the mail at no fault to the seller. in soft mailers two recycled cardboard squares could have prevented this
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Seller feedback (4,134)
- i***i (38)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseWasn't really looking for these 2 books, but I have enjoyed browsing thru them... good addition to my collection of all things Oriental, especially Japanese and Chinese
- w***- (62)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchasewas damaged in the mail at no fault to the seller. in soft mailers two recycled cardboard squares could have prevented this
- 3***b (112)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGood enough. Useful.