Hope: A Tragedy - Couverture souple

Auslander, Shalom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1447207661 ISBN 13 : 9781447207665

Editeur : Picador, 2012

Synopsis

Hope: A Tragedy 'A wonderful, twisted, trangressive, heartbreaking, true, and hugely funny book.' A. L. Kennedy Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

`Can the darkest events of the twentieth century and of all human history be used to show the folly of hope? And can the result be so funny that you burst out laughing again and again? If you doubt this is possible, read Hope: A Tragedy. You won't regret it.'
--John Gray, author of Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

'This scabrous and determinedly iconoclastic novel about Jewish identity and the stifling grip of history may be one of the funniest and most thought-provoking novels you'll read all year . . . Hope: A Tragedy still feels bracingly original and challenging, a happy cross between Roth and Woody Allen that is fully of devilish and piercing humour.' --Sunday Times

"This debut is one of the best and most bracing novels I have read in a very long time. Ferociously intelligent, full of savage irony, it feels like a throwback to the finest days of iconoclastic Jewish-American fiction - a book that could sit alongside Portnoy's Complaint, say, or Catch-22. What it shares with those books is its desire to shock, unsettle and tilt at cultural norms; not least of its attractions is that it is blisteringly funny as it does so. . . . a novel of unwavering anger, comic brilliance and - almost against the odds - poignancy." --Sunday Times

"In Auslander's funny and acerbic novel, the holocaust is still alive in the most real way possible . Do read it because it'll make you laugh out loud because it'll shock you. Because you'll find yourself thinking about it for days and weeks afterwards." --Guardian

"This outrageously original and funny novel turns on an event so startling I had to read the page again to be sure that I wasn't hallucinating. As it begins, Solomon Kugel goes up to his attic after hearing strange noises. If I reveal what he finds it will ruin the pleasure, but I promise your jaw will hit the floor. For some the premise may be offensive, but what the novel says about the impossibly messy business of being human is moving and challenging." --Mail on Sunday

"Anne Frank alive and well and living in an attic in America? Shalom Auslander's black post-Holocaust comedy takes some hair-raising risks but emerges triumphant." --Sunday Telegraph

Biographie de l'auteur :

Shalom Auslander was raised in Monsey, New York. Nominated for the Koret Award for writers under thirty-five, he has published articles in Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, Tablet, and the New Yorker, and has had stories aired on NPR’s This American Life. He is the author of the short-story collection Beware of God and the memoir Foreskin’s Lament. He lives in New York.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1447207661
• ISBN 13: 9781447207665
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352