The Ministry of Special Cases - Brossura

Englander, Nathan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571235441 ISBN 13: 9780571235445

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2008

Riassunto

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. As Argentina's Dirty War unfolds around them, 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.

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Descrizione del libro:

The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander is a dazzling story of hope and loss set during Argentina's Dirty War, from the bestselling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges.

L'autore:

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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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0571235441
• ISBN 13: 9780571235445
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352