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Beware of G-d : stories

Violent rabbis, lovelorn wives, a busy Grim Reaper, shame-filled simians, and one seriously angry deity populate this humorous and disquieting collection. Shalom Auslander's stories in Beware of God have the mysterious punch of a dream. They are wide ranging and inventive: A young Jewish man's inexplicable transformation into a very large, blond, tattooed goy ends with a Talmudic argument over whether or not his father can beat his unclean son with a copy of the Talmud. A pious man having a near-death experience discovers that God is actually a chicken, and he's forced to reconsider his life -- and his diet. At God's insistence, Leo Schwartzman searches Home Depot for supplies for an ark. And a young boy mistakes Holocaust Remembrance Day as emergency preparedness training for the future. Auslander draws upon his upbringing in an Orthodox Jewish community in New York State to craft stories that are filled with shame, sex, God, and death, but also manage to be wickedly funny and poignant.

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  • "Quatorze nouvelles avec des rabbins violents, des chiens culpabilisateurs, des épouses incitant au péché, un poulet géant et des golems trop bien intentionnés... Derrière un humour dévastateur, ce recueil pose des questions fondamentales sur l'emprise de la religion et le besoin humain d'autorité."
  • "Violent rabbis, lovelorn wives, a busy Grim Reaper, shame-filled simians, and one seriously angry deity populate this humorous and disquieting collection. Shalom Auslander's stories in Beware of God have the mysterious punch of a dream. They are wide ranging and inventive: A young Jewish man's inexplicable transformation into a very large, blond, tattooed goy ends with a Talmudic argument over whether or not his father can beat his unclean son with a copy of the Talmud. A pious man having a near-death experience discovers that God is actually a chicken, and he's forced to reconsider his life -- and his diet. At God's insistence, Leo Schwartzman searches Home Depot for supplies for an ark. And a young boy mistakes Holocaust Remembrance Day as emergency preparedness training for the future. Auslander draws upon his upbringing in an Orthodox Jewish community in New York State to craft stories that are filled with shame, sex, God, and death, but also manage to be wickedly funny and poignant."@en
  • "Fourteen short stories include the tales of a young Jewish man's transformation that tempts his father to beat him with a copy of the Talmud and a man's quest for ark supplies in a home improvement store."@en
  • "Fourteen short stories include the tales of a young Jewish man's transformation that tempts his father to beat him with a copy of the Talmud and a man's quest for ark supplies in a home improvement store."

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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Vorsicht bissiger Gott : fiese Stories"
  • "Attention Dieu méchant"
  • "A Dio spiacendo"
  • "A Dio spiacendo"@it
  • "Beware of G-d : stories"@en
  • "Vorsicht, bissiger Gott fiese Storys ; mit einem vom Autor eigens für die deutsche Ausgabe verfassten Glossar"
  • "Beware of God : [stories]"
  • "Beware of God stories"
  • "Beware of God stories"@en
  • "Attention Dieu méchant nouvelles"
  • "Beware of God"
  • "Vorsicht, bissiger Gott : fiese Storys"
  • "Beware of God : stories"@en
  • "Beware of God : stories"
  • "A dio spiacendo"

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