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Knopf
May 2007
On Sale: April 24, 2007
352 pages
ISBN: 0375404937
EAN: 9780375404931
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Fiction
The long-awaited novel from Nathan Englander, author of
For 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 Cases casts 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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