Moving Kings - Brossura

Joshua Cohen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1910695491 ISBN 13: 9781910695494

Casa editrice: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

'A Jewish Sopranos...burly with particularities and vibrant with voice...utterly engrossing, full of passionate sympathy...This is a book full of brilliant sentences, brilliant paragraphs, brilliant chapters...There's not a page without some vital charge- a flash of metaphor, an idiomatic originality, a bastard neologism born of nothing...Cohen is an extraordinary prose stylist, surely one of the most prodigious in American fiction today...his sentences are all-season journeyers, able to do everything everywhere at once...A crystalline novelist with a journalistic openess to the world.' --James Wood, New Yorker

'Joshua Cohenhas become one of America's top young novelists...His new novel, Moving Kings, is the tale of a modern-day King David...Cohen's writing is filled with sharp turns of phrase and elegant rhythms...The denouement is as vengeful as any Old Testament plot twist.'- Sarah Begley, Time

'[Cohen] explores the differences between an American Jew and his newly arrived Israeli cousins with intelligence and sympathy. This is an astute and often penetrating look at a divided world, lightened with sympathy for all its flawed protagonists.' --Alexander Larman, Observer

'At 240 pages, Moving Kings is considerably shorter than Cohen's previous two novels- the dazzling, tech industry-satirising Book of Numbers(2015), and his 2010 800-page epic Witz- but it's sharper and feels important and timely for the way it dramatises life at the harsh end of western societies where housing is regarded as a commodity rather than a right. This is a deeply political novel that helps us to imagine a world where the real kings and queens will not be the property racketeers, but instead those who attain a freedom that has nothing to do with what they own.'- Max Liu, Financial Times

'[A] brilliant American novelist...[Moving Kings] is subtle and intelligent and compelling- and quite brilliantly composed, every page wriggling with little riffs and sallies.' --Ian Samson, Guardian

L'autore:

Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. He has written novels (Book of Numbers), short fiction (Four New Messages), and nonfiction for the New York Times, London Review of Books, BookForum, The Forward, and others. He is a critic for Harper's Magazine and lives in New York City.

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• Editore: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1910695491
• ISBN 13: 9781910695494
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240