The Ministry of Special Cases

The Ministry of Special Cases
by Nathan Englander

The Ministry of Special Cases
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Author: Nathan Englander
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-04-24
ISBN: 0375404937
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Knopf

Book Reviews of The Ministry of Special Cases

Book Review: This book will be with me for some time
Summary: 4 Stars

This book provides a flashback to the time when there seemed to be new military coups in South America all the time. Living in Europe we heard it on the news. Reading this book makes it real.
The strength of this book is in the little details, the sudden realizations of the small things underway. It is not an easy thriller for a quick and fun ride. This is much more serious. I was impressed with this work. The book created an atmosphere I think will be with me for quite a while.

Summary of The Ministry of Special Cases

The long-awaited novel from Nathan Englander, author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. Englander's wondrous and much-heralded collection of stories won the 2000 Pen/Malamud Award and was translated into more than a dozen languages.

From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery 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 who won't accept him; strives for a wife who forever saves him; and spends his nights protecting the good name of a community that denies his existence--and denies a checkered history that only Kaddish holds dear. When the nightmare of the disappeared children brings the Poznan family to its knees, they are thrust into the unyielding corridors of the Ministry of Special Cases, 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 and the future, the nature of truth itself, all take shape according to a corrupt 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 put things right. Here again are all the marvelous qualities for which Englander's first book was immediately beloved: his exuberant wit and invention, his cosmic sense of the absurd, his genius for balancing joyfulness and despair. Through the devastation of a single family, Englander captures, indelibly, 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.

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