The Ministry of Special Cases

From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemeter y in Buenos Aires, The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. In the heart of Argentina's Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan struggles with a son wh o won't accept him; strives for a wife who forever saves him; and spends hi s nights protecting the good name of a community that denies his existence- -and denies a checkered history that only Kaddish holds dear. When the nigh tmare of the disappeared children brings the Poznan family to its knees, th ey are thrust into the unyielding corridors of the Ministry of Special Case s, the refuge of last resort. Nathan Englander's first novel is a timeless story of fathers and sons. In a world turned upside down, where the past an d the future, the nature of truth itself, all take shape according to a cor rupt government's whims, one man--one spectacularly hopeless man--fights to overcome his history and his name, and, if for only once in his life, to p ut things right. Here again are all the marvelous qualities for which Engla nder's first book was immediately beloved: his exuberant wit and invention, his cosmic sense of the absurd, his genius for balancing joyfulness and de spair. Through the devastation of a single family, Englander captures, inde libly, the grief of a nation. The Ministry of Special Cases, like Englander 's stories before it, is a celebration of our humanity, in all its weakness , and--despite that--hope.

Product Info

ISBN: 0307389723

ISBN-13: 9780307389725

Publisher: Random House Inc

Year: 2008

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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