Hope: A Tragedy
of Shalom Auslander
Description
FROM THE CREATOR OF SHOWTIME'S "HAPPYISH"The bestselling debut novel from Shalom Auslander, the darkly comic author of Foreskinâs Lament and Beware of God.A New York Times Notable Book 2012 The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there.To begin again. To start anew. But it isnât quite working out that way for KugelâŠHis ailing mother stubbornly holds on to life, and wonât stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate matters further, some lunatic is burning down farmhouses just like the one Kugel bought, and when, one night, he discovers historyâa living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of historyâhiding upstairs in his attic, bad quickly becomes worse.Hope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit. It is a comic and compelling story of the hopeless longing to be free of those pasts that haunt our every present.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 292 pages
- Publisher Riverhead Books
- Publication Date January 12th 2012
- First Publication 01/06/12
- Language English
- ISBN 9781594488382
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Stockton, New York (United States)']
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