The Jewish Messiah
Author: Grunberg, Arnon
ISBN: 9780143114970
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 24 Feb 2009
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback / softback
b>The new novel by the internationally acclaimed author- "a farce of nuclear proportions"(i>Vanity Fair/i>)/b>br>br>Arnon Grunberg is one of the most subtly outrageous provocateurs in world literature. i>The Jewish Messiah/i>, 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 i>Mein Kampf/i> 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, i>The Jewish Messiah/i> is both a great love story and a grotesque farce that forces a profound reckoning with the limits of human guilt, cruelty, and suffering. It is without question Arnon Grunberg's masterpiece.
ISBN: 9780143114970
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 24 Feb 2009
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback / softback
b>The new novel by the internationally acclaimed author- "a farce of nuclear proportions"(i>Vanity Fair/i>)/b>br>br>Arnon Grunberg is one of the most subtly outrageous provocateurs in world literature. i>The Jewish Messiah/i>, 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 i>Mein Kampf/i> 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, i>The Jewish Messiah/i> is both a great love story and a grotesque farce that forces a profound reckoning with the limits of human guilt, cruelty, and suffering. It is without question Arnon Grunberg's masterpiece.
