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  • 1
    Book
    Book
    London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
    UID:
    gbv_1029544026
    Format: 203 Seiten
    ISBN: 9781474611015 , 9781474611022
    Content: "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"--
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781524732769
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781474611046
    Language: English
    Subjects: American Studies
    RVK:
    Keywords: Fiktionale Darstellung
    Author information: Englander, Natan 1970-
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  • 2
    Book
    Book
    München : Luchterhand
    UID:
    kobvindex_VBRD-i97836308739920233
    Format: 233 S.
    ISBN: 9783630873992
    Note: Aus dem Engl. übers.
    Language: German
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  • 3
    Book
    Book
    New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf
    UID:
    gbv_884459543
    Format: 252 Seiten , 25 cm
    Edition: First Edition
    ISBN: 9781524732738 , 9781524711269
    Content: "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"--
    Content: "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"--
    Note: A@ Borzoi book
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781524732745
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Englander, Nathan, author Dinner at the center of the earth New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017
    Language: English
    Subjects: American Studies
    RVK:
    Keywords: Jewish fiction ; Political fiction
    Author information: Englander, Natan 1970-
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  • 4
    Book
    Book
    New York : Vintage Internat.
    UID:
    b3kat_BV013218158
    Format: 205 S.
    Edition: 1. Vintage Internat. ed.
    ISBN: 0375704434
    Content: Stories on being Jewish set in various parts of the world. In the title story, a sex-starved husband in New York is authorized by his rabbi to visit a prostitute. The story, "In this way we are wise", concerns the nonchalant attitude of the inhabitants of Jerusalem to terrorism while Reb Kringle is a Jew who works as Santa Claus in a department store.
    Note: Originally published: 1999
    Language: English
    Subjects: American Studies
    RVK:
    Author information: Englander, Natan 1970-
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  • 5
    UID:
    b3kat_BV023087146
    Format: 445 S. , 215 mm x 135 mm
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    ISBN: 9783630872599 , 363087259X
    Uniform Title: The ministry of special cases
    Language: German
    Subjects: American Studies
    RVK:
    Keywords: Buenos Aires ; Militärdiktatur ; Verschleppung ; Juden ; Geschichte 1975 ; Fiktionale Darstellung ; Belletristische Darstellung ; Fiktionale Darstellung
    Author information: Mundhenk, Michael 1954-
    Author information: Englander, Natan 1970-
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  • 6
    UID:
    kobvindex_HFS0011243
    Format: 445 S.
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    ISBN: 978-3-630-87259-9 , 3-630-87259-X
    Uniform Title: The ministry of special cases
    Language: German
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  • 7
    Book
    Book
    London : Weidenfield & Nicolson
    UID:
    b3kat_BV040370787
    Format: 207 S.
    ISBN: 9780297867692 , 9780297867708
    Content: "The author of the sensational national best seller For the Relief of Unbearable Urges returns with a commanding new collection of short stories: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank establishes Nathan Englander beyond all doubt as the heir to Roth, Malamud, and Babel. A tour de force. The title story, inspired by Carver's masterpiece, is a comic classic, a provocative portrait of two marriages in which the holocaust is played out as a devastating parlor game. "Camp Sundown" is an outlandishly dark story of vigilante justice undertaken by a troop of geriatric campers in a bucolic summer enclave who recognize a fellow vacationer as a former Nazi guard. "Free Fruit for Young Widows" is a small, sharp study in evil. "Sister Hills" chronicles the history of the Israeli settlements from the eve of the Yom Kippur war through the present, a political story constructed around the tale of two mothers who strike a terrible bargain to save a child. A great leap forward from one of our most audacious and important writers, and a sensational literary event"--
    Language: English
    Author information: Englander, Natan 1970-
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  • 8
    UID:
    kobvindex_JGB0225080
    Format: 149 p. , ill. , 4ʻ
    ISBN: 9780316069861
    Uniform Title: Haggadah
    Language: Hebrew
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  • 9
    Book
    Book
    [München] : Luchterhand
    UID:
    kobvindex_SLB507122
    Format: 445 S.
    Edition: 1 Aufl.
    ISBN: 9783630872599
    Uniform Title: The Ministryof Special Castes〈dt〉
    Language: German
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  • 10
    UID:
    kobvindex_SLB844662
    Format: 285 Seiten , 22 cm
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    ISBN: 9783630874074
    Content: Helga Winkelmann
    Content: In einem Gefängnis in der Negev-Wüste ist ein Doppelspion inhaftiert, der zu seinem Wärter ein fast freundschaftliches Verhältnis hat. Ein israelischer General liegt seit Jahren im Koma und erlebt in diesem Zustand Stationen seiner militärischen Laufbahn wieder. In Paris verliebt sich ein untergetauchter Mossad-Spion in eine junge Frau, die ihm helfen will. Der Palästinenser Farid trifft in Berlin den Kanadier Joshua. Ein israelisch-palästinesisches Liebespaar kann sich nur in einem Tunnel unterhalb des Gaza-Streifens treffen. Zwischen 2002 und 2014, zwischen Fiktion und Realität (die Figur des Generals ist angelehnt an Ariel Sharon, in einer Szene tritt Jassir Arafat auf), zwischen Politthriller und Liebesgeschichten verknüpft Nathan Englander (zuletzt ID-A 42/12) Menschen und ihre Schicksale, um so die vielen Facetten des Nahostkonfliktes aufzuzeigen. Geschickt, oft überraschend stellt er zwischen den Erzählsträngen Verbindungen her: Personen sind nicht das, was sie vorgeben zu sein bzw. tauchen an anderer Stelle mit einer anderen Identität wieder auf. Ab mittleren Bibliotheken gerne empfohlen.
    Content: In mehreren teils miteinander verbundenen Erzählsträngen werden die vielen Facetten des Nahostkonfliktes geschildert: Ein Doppelspion lebt seit Jahren in Einzelhaft, ein israelischer General liegt im Koma, eine Israelin und ein Palästinenser verlieben sich ineinander.
    Language: German
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