The Netanyahus (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
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Engelska
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248
Utgivningsdatum
2022-06-01
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Winner of Pulitzer Prize 2022 (United States); Winner of Jewish Book Award 2021 (United States); Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award 2021 (United States); Long-listed for Joyce Carol O
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Fitzcarraldo Editions
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197 x 113 x 16 mm
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176 g
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1
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9781804270202

The Netanyahus

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Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historianbut not an historian of the Jewsis co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politicsAn Account of A Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.
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Joshua Cohen is such an accomplished writer its surprising he isnt a better known one.... Cohens new book his sixth continues the turn to allegorical realism [and] is among his best: a fastidious and very funny book that is one of the most purely pleasurable works of fiction Ive read in ages. Jon Day, Financial Times The Netanyahus is Cohens sixth novel, his most conventional and his best to date. It is a tour de force: compact, laugh-out-loud funny, the best new novel Ive read this year [and] probably the funniest novel ever written about contending historiographies.... Cohens lesson, in this determinedly comic novel, is that history happens as farce and tragedy simultaneously. John Phipps, The Times [Cohen] clearly is a genius ... The Netanyahus [is] a comic historical fantasia a dizzying range of bookish learning and worldly knowhow is given rich, resourceful expression.... With its tight time frame, loopy narrator, portrait of Jewish-American life against a semi-rural backdrop, and moments of cruel academic satire, The Netanyahus reads like an attempt, as delightful as it sounds, to cross-breed Roths The Ghost Writer and Nabokovs Pale Fire.... This is a brisk, impudent, utterly immersive novel. Leo Robson, Guardian The Netanyahus, like Cohens previous novels, is driven by the momentum of its prose. It has a freewheeling, all-consuming style which frequently turns up unexpected delights.... This is a surprising novel, full of quirks and explosive moments Christopher Shrimpton, Spectator No one writing in English today is more gifted than Joshua Cohen. Every page of The Netanyahus an historical account of a man left out of history, a wickedly funny fable of the return of the repressed crackles with Cohens high style and joyride intelligence. Nicole Krauss, author of Forest Dark The Netanyahus is constructed with a brilliant comic grace that moves from the sly to the exuberant. Some scenes are funny beyond belief. But even when moments in the book are sharp or melancholy, they keep an undertone of witty and ironic observation. The vision in this book is deeply original, making clear what a superb writer Joshua Cohen is. Colm Tibn, author of The Magician Cohen is an extraordinary prose stylist, surely one of the most prodigious in American fiction today. James Wood, New Yorker

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Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. His books include the novels Moving Kings, Book of Numbers, Witz, A Heaven of Others, and Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto; the short fiction collection Four New Messages, and the non-fiction collection Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction. Called a major American writer by the New York Times, maybe Americas greatest living writer by the Washington Post, and an extraordinary prose stylist, surely one of the most prodigious at work in American fiction today by the New Yorker, Cohen was awarded Israels 2013 Matanel Prize for Jewish Writers, and in 2017 was named one of Grantas Best Young American Novelists. In 2022, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Netanyahus. He lives in New York City.