Ministry of Special Cases - Softcover

Englander, Nathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571235425 ISBN 13: 9780571235421

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2007

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Reseña del editor:

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. Set in a tumultuous Buenos Aires on the cusp of a military coup, the couple's own tumultuous relationship is held together by their role as parents dedicated to a teenage son. As Argentina's Dirty War unfolds around them, it threatens to overwhelm the infectious, mad energy of their lives. Their sometimes hilarious misadventures are soon replaced by something much darker. A visit to the dreaded "Ministry of Special Cases" is only the start of Englander's stunning vision of a nation in the hold of corruption and torture, a place where absurdity, despair and hope are the end products of a bureaucracy run out of control.

Biografía del autor:

Nathan Englander was born in New York in 1970. His short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and numerous anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Prize Stories. Englander's story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, earned him a PEN/Malamud Award among many other accolades. He lives in New York City.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0571235425
• ISBN 13: 9780571235421
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 339