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The Ministry of Special Cases

Name: The Ministry of Special Cases
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Author: Nathan Englander
ISBN: 9781474611121

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Nathan Englander

Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Paru le : 24/06/2020

Buenos Aires, 1970s. Kaddish Poznan chips the names off gravestones for a living, removing traces of disreputable ancestors for their more respectable... > Lire la suite

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Buenos Aires, 1970s. Kaddish Poznan chips the names off gravestones for a living, removing traces of disreputable ancestors for their more respectable kin. His wife Lillian works in insurance, earning money when people live longer than they fear. When the government is overthrown in a military coup, their son Pato is arrested by the police and becomes one of the disappeared. Desperate to find him, Kaddish and Lillian turn to the Ministry of Special Cases, a bureaucracy of anguish and false promises, and they discover just how far they are willing to go to save their son...

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Date de parution : 24/06/2020
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN : 978-1-4746-1112-1
EAN : 9781474611121
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Biographie de Nathan Englander

Nathan Englander is the author of the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, an international best seller, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, and the novels The Ministry of Special Cases and Dinner at the Center of the Earth. His books have been translated into twenty-two languages. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Malamud Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2013.
He is Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter.