Moving Kings - Softcover

Cohen, Joshua

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910695491 ISBN 13: 9781910695494

Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017

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'Joshua Cohen's MOVING KINGS is a lit fuse, a force let loose, a creeping flame heading for demolition, and Cohen himself is a fierce polyknower in command of the workings of the moving parts of much of the human predicament. A master of argot and wit, he writes the language of men in a staccato yet keening idiom of his own invention. And though it is set in a grungy New York, call this the first Israeli combat novel ever dared by an American writer.' - Cynthia Ozick, author of FOREIGN BODIES 'Joshua Cohen is a blacksmith who heats, hammers and molds the language to sharpest, most precise points. Not for the sake of craft, but to tell a troubled story about troubled life in the twenty-first century. This is a dazzling and poignant book.' - Rachel Kushner, author of THE FLAMETHROWERS Praise for BOOKS OF NUMBERS 'More impressive than all but a few novels published so far this decade ... a wheeling meditation on the wired life, on privacy, on what being human in the age of binary code might mean ... [Joshua] Cohen, all of thirty-four, emerges as a major American writer.' - Dwight Garner, NEW YORK TIMES 'A hugely ambitious novel set in the high-tech world of now ... a verbal high-wire act, daring in its tones and textures:clever, poetic, fast-moving, deeply playful, filled with jokes, savvy about machines, wise about people, dazzling and engrossing.' - Colm Toibin, GUARDIAN

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The year is 2015, and 21-year-olds Yoav and Uri have just completed their compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces. In keeping with national tradition, they take a year off for rest, recovery, and travel. They come to New York City and begin working for Yoav's distant cousin, David King-a proud American patriot, Republican, and Jew, and the recently divorced proprietor of King's Moving Inc., a heavyweight in the Tri-State area's moving and storage industries. Yoav and Uri now must struggle to become reacquainted with civilian life, but it's not easy to move beyond their traumatic pasts when their days are spent kicking down doors, working as eviction-movers in the ungentrified corners of the Bronx, Brooklyn,and Queens, throwing out delinquent tenants and seizing their possessions. And what starts off as a profitable if eerily familiar job-'an Occupation'-quickly turns violent, when they encounter one homeowner seeking revenge. Driven by Cohen's characteristic intelligence, boundless energy, psychological tension, and humor, MOVING KINGS is a powerful and provocative novel about faith, race, class, and what it means to have a home.

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• Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1910695491
• ISBN 13: 9781910695494
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240