The bestselling debut novel from Shalom Auslander, the darkly comic author of Foreskin’s Lament and Beware of God. Hope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit. It is a comic and compelling story of the hopeless longing to be free of those pasts that haunt our every /5(). The bestselling debut novel from Shalom Auslander, the darkly comic author of Foreskin’s Lament and Beware of God. Hope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant www.doorway.ru: Hope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit. It is a comic and compelling story of the hopeless longing to be free of those pasts that haunt our every www.doorway.ru by: 8.
Hope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit. The inside jacket plot description of Shalom Auslander's Hope: A Tragedy is somewhat misleading. Hope: A Tragedy. Shalom Auslander. In this allegorical take on Jewish neurosis and survivor guilt, Auslander treads a fine line between iconoclasm and tasteless irreverence, but his ironic humour saves the satire from offensiveness. That sentiment would probably appeal to Solomon Kugel, the protagonist of essayist Shalom Auslander's poisonously funny debut novel, Hope: A Tragedy. Racked by constant worry — and swimming in a pool of neuroses deeper and darker than the Mariana Trench — Kugel's mind plays.
In his new book, “Hope: A Tragedy,” he has abandoned memoir in favor of the novel, because, as the real estate agent who has the last word of consequence in a book obsessed with last words. The bestselling debut novel from Shalom Auslander, the darkly comic author of Foreskin’s Lament and Beware of God. Hope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit. Shalom Auslander’s “Hope: A Tragedy,” a comic novel about an older Anne Frank, questions the role of optimism in Jewish history and tradition.
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