My Holocaust: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Reich, Tova

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0061173452 ISBN 13 : 9780061173455

Editeur : Harper, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Reich Tova

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Maurice and Norman Messer, father-and-son business partners, know a good product when they see it. That product is the Holocaust, and Maurice, a Holocaust survivor with an inflated personal history, and Norman, enjoying vicarious victimhood as a participant in the second-generation movement, proceed to market it enthusiastically. Not even the disappearance of Nechama, Norman's daughter and Maurice's granddaughter, into the Carmelite convent at Auschwitz, where she is transformed into a nun, Sister Consolatia of the Cross, deters them from pushing their agenda.

Father and son embark on a tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, which Maurice—now the driving force behind the most powerful Holocaust memorialization institution in America—organizes to soften up a potential major donor, and which Norman takes advantage of to embark on a surrealistic search for his daughter. At the death camp they run into assorted groups and individuals all clamoring for a piece of the Holocaust, including Buddhist New Agers on a retreat, Israeli schoolchildren on a required heritage pilgrimage, a Holocaust artifact hustler, filmmakers, and an astonishing collection of others. All hell breaks loose when Maurice's museum is taken over by a coalition of self-styled victims seeking Holocaust status, bringing together a vivid cast of all-too-human characters, from Holocaust professionals to Holocaust wannabees of every persuasion, in the fevered competition to win the grand prize of owning the Holocaust.

An inspiringly courageous and shockingly original tour-de-force, My Holocaust dares to penetrate territory until now considered sacrosanct in its brilliantly provocative and darkly comic exploration of the uses and abuses of memory and the meaning of human suffering.

Revue de presse :

“Serious and hilarious and utterly scathing... Tova Reich is the master of fury’s return” (Washington Post Book World)

“subversive, painful, brilliant, and, yes, both laugh-out-loud funny and illuminating...” (Los Angeles Times)

“a creation that surpasses mere chutzpah on its way to the profound” (Entertainment Weekly)

“...Reich’s satire is...cynical...often hilarious―and likely to cause a scandal.” (Publishers Weekly)

“...it surely will be the subject of much discussion.” (Library Journal)

“viciously funny, head-spinning...this novel is clearly in its own class” (Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel)

“Reich has assembled an outlandish cast...[My Holocaust] is piercing and perceptive and cuts a wide swath.” (Booklist)

“...provocative satire...powerful darts of wit and perception... clever...” (Kirkus Reviews)

“A deliciously wicked satirical novel” (The Forward)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061173452
• ISBN 13: 9780061173455
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 336