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Riverhead Books
January 2012
On Sale: January 12, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 159448838X
EAN: 9781594488382
Kindle: B005GSZZ88
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Fiction Family Life
The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing:
No one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any
historical import at all has ever happened there, which is
why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts
and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there.
To begin again. To start anew. But it isn't quite working
out that way. His ailing mother stubbornly holds on to life,
and won't stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration
camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate
matters further, some lunatic is burning down farmhouses
just like the one he bought. And when, one night, Kugel
discovers history-a living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead
specimen of history-hiding upstairs in his attic, bad
quickly becomes worse. The critically acclaimed writer Shalom Auslander's debut
novel is a hilarious and disquieting examination of the
burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable
rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit.
It is a comic and compelling story of the hopeless longing
to be free of those pasts that haunt our every present.
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