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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

A Novel

The long-awaited first novel from the author of the sensational short-story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a stunning historical tale set at the start of Argentina's Dirty War, a hallucinatory journey into a forbidden city and a world of terror.

The Ministry of Special Cases

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Rhode Island

The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father Larry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews. When his father dies, it is his responsibility as the surviving son to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. To the horror and dismay of his mother and sisters, Larry refuses--thus imperiling the fate of his father's soul. To appease them, and in penance for failing to mourn his father correctly, he hatches an ingenious if cynical plan, hiring a stranger through a website called kaddish.com to recite the daily prayer and shepherd his father's soul safely to rest. This is Nathan Englander's freshest and funniest work to date--a satire that touches, lightly and with unforgettable humor, on the conflict between religious and secular worlds, and the hypocrisies that run through both. A novel about atonement; about spiritual redemption; and about the soul-sickening temptations of the internet, which, like God, is everywhere.

Kaddish. com

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New York

The best work yet from the Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges--a political thriller that unfolds in the highly charged territory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and pivots on the complex relationship between a secret prisoner and his guard. A prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched over him a dozen years. An American waitress in Paris. A young Palestinian man in Berlin who strikes up an odd friendship with a wealthy Canadian businessman. And The General, Israel's most controversial leader, who lies dying in a hospital, the only man who knows of the prisoner's existence. From these vastly different lives Nathan Englander has woven a powerful, intensely suspenseful portrait of a nation riven by insoluble conflict, even as the lives of its citizens become fatefully and inextricably entwined--a political thriller of the highest order that interrogates the anguished, violent division between Israelis and Palestinians, and dramatizes the immense moral ambiguities haunting both sides. Who is right, who is wrong--who is the guard, who is truly the prisoner? A tour de force from one of America's most acclaimed voices in contemporary fiction.

Dinner at the Center of the Earth

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Wyoming

#hardcover #fiction #kaddish #family #orthodoxjew book has small red dot on bottom (see pic) book is new and never read

Kansas

#paperback 

I read this for school, so some pages contain pencil annotation (see picture for example). One page has water damage.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Alabama

Stories

From the Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, eight powerful stories, dazzling in their display of language and imagination.

From the title story, a provocative portrait of two marriages inspired by Raymond Carver's masterpiece, to "Peep Show" and "How We Avenged the Blums," two stories that return to the author's classic themes of sexual longing and ingenuity in the face of adversity, these stories affirm Nathan Englander's place at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.

What We Talk about When We Talk about Anne Frank

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Jacket has a bit of bookshelf wear, but pages and book itself are in great condition. 

SYNOPSIS

When his father dies, it falls to Larry—the secular son in a family of #Orthodox Brooklyn Jews—to recite the #Kaddish, the #Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. But to the horror and dismay of his sister, Larry refuses, imperiling the fate of his father’s soul. To appease her, he hires a stranger through a website called kaddish.com to say the prayer instead—a decision that will have profound, and very personal, repercussions. Irreverent, hilarious, and wholly irresistible, Nathan Englander’s tale of a son who makes a diabolical compromise brilliantly captures the tensions between #tradition and #modernity. • #jewishlit #basedinNY #darkcomedy #litfic #literaryfiction

Massachusetts

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New Hampshire

Combines absurd, humorous, and poignant themes that reveal the fierce humanity of characters in surreal situations.

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

North Carolina

A political thriller set against the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, from the Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
 
"Blends elements of spy thriller and love story, magical realism, and an all-too-real history of one of the world's most intractable problems: peace between Israel and its neighbors." --The Boston Globe

In the Negev desert, a nameless prisoner languishes in a secret cell, his only companion the guard who has watched over him for a dozen years. Meanwhile, the prisoner's arch nemesis--The General, Israel's most controversial leader--lies dying in a hospital bed. From Israel and Gaza to Paris, Italy, and America, Englander provides a kaleidoscopic view of the prisoner's unlikely journey to his cell. Dinner at the Center of the Earth is a tour de force--a powerful, wryly funny, intensely suspenseful portrait of a nation riven by insoluble conflict, and the man who improbably lands at the center of it all.

#paperback #fiction #shortstories #holocaust #religion #contemporary #jewish

New Jersey

In 1976 Buenos Aires, Kaddish Poznan, the outcast son of a whore, who makes his living defacing Jewish gravestones, and his wife, Lillian, are devastated by the disappearance of their own son, Pato, which forces them into the bleak corridors of the Ministry of Special Cases in search of the truth, in a debut novel set against the backdrop of Argentina's Dirty War. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

a few underlines in the text. otherwise in like new condition 

Signed by the author, at an in-person event. #signed #hardcover 

Nathan Englander

The Ministry of Special Cases

Nathan Englander

Kaddish. com

Nathan Englander

Dinner at the Center of the Earth

Nathan Englander

The Ministry of Special Cases

Nathan Englander

Kaddish. com

Nathan Englander

What We Talk about When We Talk about Anne Frank

Nathan Englander

kaddish.com

Etgar Keret; Nathan Englander (Translator); Miriam Shlesinger (Translator)

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

Nathan Englander

Dinner at the Center of the Earth

Nathan Englander

What We Talk about When We Talk about Anne Frank

Etgar Keret; Nathan Englander (Translator); Miriam Shlesinger (Translator)

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

Nathan Englander

The Ministry of Special Cases

Nathan Englander

What We Talk about When We Talk about Anne Frank

Nathan Englander

Dinner at the Center of the Earth (signed)

Nathan Englander

The Ministry of Special Cases