The new novel by the internationally acclaimed author- -a farce of nuclear proportions-(Vanity Fair) Arnon Grunberg is one of the most subtly outrageous provocateurs in world literature. The Jewish Messiah, which chronicles the evolution of one Xavier Radek from malcontent grandson of a former SS officer, to Jewish convert, to co- translator of Hitler's Mein Kampf into Yiddish, to Israeli politician and Israel's most unlikely prime minister, is his most outrageous work yet. Taking on the most well-guarded pieties and taboos of our age, The Jewish Messiah...
The new novel by the internationally acclaimed author- -a farce of nuclear proportions-(Vanity Fair) Arnon Grunberg is one of the mo...
Longlisted for the 2014 Best Translated Book Award
"Grunberg chronicles the mistakes of a morose Dutch bourgeois and constructs a delectable psychological thriller."--Le Figaro
Jorgen Hofmeester once had it all: a beautiful wife, a nice house with a garden in an upperclass neighborhood in Amsterdam, a respectable job as an editor, two lovely daughters named Ibi and Tirza, and a large amount of money in a Swiss bank account. But during the preparations for Tirza's graduation party, we come to know what he has lost. His wife has left him; Ibi is starting a bed and...
Longlisted for the 2014 Best Translated Book Award
"Grunberg chronicles the mistakes of a morose Dutch bourgeois and constructs a dele...
