Product Description Longlisted for the 2017 International Dylan Thomas Prize God asked Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac, and Abraham replied obediently, "Here I am." This is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. Over the course of three weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., three sons watch their parents' marriage falter and their family home fall apart. Meanwhile, a large catastrophe is engulfing another part of the world: a massive earthquake devastates the Middle East, sparking a pan-Arab invasion of Israel. With global upheaval in the background and domestic collapse in the foreground, Jonathan Safran Foer asks us: What is the true meaning of home? Can one man ever reconcile the conflicting duties of his many roles– husband, father, son? And how much of life can a person ultimately bear? Review An Instant New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2016 A Time Magazine Top 10 Novel of 2016 A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2016 A Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Fiction 2016 A Washington Post Best Book of the Year An Amazon.com Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2017 International Dylan Thomas Prize “Brilliant, always original . . . Certain set pieces . . . show a masterly sense of timing and structure and deep feeling . . . Foer strews small, semiprecious comic and gnomic gems all along the trail he is breaking . . Here I Am is not only the novel's title but also, maybe, an announcement of its ambitious and crazy-talented author's literary residence―an announcement that not only his location but his basic sensibility and very identity are to be found in this work.” ―Daniel Menaker, The New York Times Book Review “Here I Am is one of those books, like Middlemarch, or for that matter Gone Girl, which lays bare the interior of a marriage with such intelligence and deep feeling and pitiless clarity, it’s impossible to read it and not re-examine your own family, and your place in it.”—Lev Grossman, Time “[Here I Am] is an ambitious platter of intellection and emotion. Its observations are crisp; its intimations of doom resonate; its jokes are funny. Here I Am consistently lit up my pleasure centers . . . This is also Mr. Foer’s best and most caustic novel, filled with so much pain and regret that your heart sometimes struggles to hold it all . . . This book offers intensities on every page. Once put down it begs . . . to be picked back up . . . [Here I Am] has more teeming life in it than several hundred well-meaning and well-reviewed books of midlist fiction put together.” —The New York Times “Here I Am, Jonathan Safran Foer’s third novel, makes of his readers a battalion of Alices, constantly shrinking and growing as they fall prey to seductive narrative inducements. At one moment we are considering the rage that can simmer within a marriage, the next we’re pondering the imminent destruction of Israel – in the world of the novel, not imaginary but real. The minutiae of domestic life and individual idiosyncrasy are so involving . . . [And] its structure is more reflective of its themes and concerns than is at first apparent. The atomisation of its central family unit is deeply unsettling . . . For all this, Here I Am is endearingly funny, its one-liners and comic hyperboles undercutting its inherent melancholy. Set pieces delight . . . And it is also a novel about the inevitable and incomprehensible tragedy of the baton passing between generations.” ―Alex Clark, The Guardian "Foer writes like a dream. . . big-hearted, courageous and jaw-droppingly clever" ―Deborah Moggach, bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel “Emotional depth and dramatic maturity. . . Unarguably Foer's most substantial and impressive work yet.” —Herald “Here I Am is not an easy read; it’s an important one, as it reaches to the heart of so many issues—from family dynamics to politics—and is a fascinating study in intelligent, heartfelt writing that manages to capture the e
Here I Am
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Author: Foer, Jonathan Safran
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780735232938
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Author: Foer, Jonathan Safran
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- Here I Am Hardcover – International Edition, September 6, 2016
Binding: Hardcover
Format: International Edition
Number Of Pages: 592
Release Date: 06-09-2016
Package Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.9 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780735232938
