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Hope : a tragedy : a novel

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 present. The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there. To begin again. To start anew. But it isn't quite working out that way for Kugel... His ailing mother stubbornly holds on to life, and won't stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate matters further, some lunatic is burning down farmhouses just like the one Kugel bought, and when, one night, he discovers history, a living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of history, hiding upstairs in his attic, bad quickly becomes worse.

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  • "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 present. The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there. To begin again. To start anew. But it isn't quite working out that way for Kugel... His ailing mother stubbornly holds on to life, and won't stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate matters further, some lunatic is burning down farmhouses just like the one Kugel bought, and when, one night, he discovers history, a living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of history, hiding upstairs in his attic, bad quickly becomes worse."@en
  • "Nadat een jonge joodse man in de staat New York een rustige boerderij heeft gekocht, ontdekt hij op zolder een stokoude vrouw die beweert Anne Frank te zijn."
  • "Solomon Kugel wishes for nothing more than to be nowhere, to be in a place with no past, no history, no wars, no genocides. The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: which is exactly why Kugel decided to move his family there. To begin again. To start anew. But it isn't quite working out that way."@en
  • "Relocating his family to an unremarkable rural town in New York in the hopes of starting over, Solomon Kugel must cope with his depressive mother, a local arsonist, and the discovery of a believed-dead historical specimen hiding in his attic."
  • "Relocating his family to an unremarkable rural town in New York in the hopes of starting over, Solomon Kugel must cope with his depressive mother, a local arsonist, and the discovery of a believed-dead historical specimen hiding in his attic."@en

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  • "Jewish fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Satire"@en
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Miscellaneous fiction"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en

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  • "Hope: a tragedy"
  • "Hope: a tragedy, a novel"
  • "Hoffnung: Eine Tragödie Roman"
  • "Prove per un incendio : romanzo"@it
  • "L'espoir, cette tragédie"
  • "Anne Frank leeft en woont op zolder"
  • "Hoffnung: eine Tragödie Roman"
  • "Hope : a tragedy : a novel"
  • "Hope : a tragedy : a novel"@en
  • "Naděje: Tragédie"
  • "Hoffnung: Eine Tragödie"
  • "Prove per un incendio"@it
  • "Prove per un incendio"
  • "Hope : a tragedy"
  • "Hope : a tragedy"@en
  • "Espoir, Cette Tragédie, L'"
  • "Hope a tragedy"@en
  • "Hope: a tragedy : a novel"
  • "Hope : a Tragedy"@en
  • "Hope : A Tragedy A Novel"@en
  • "Hoffnung : Eine Tragödie; Roman"

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