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Kaddish.com
- Title
- Kaddish.com / Nathan Englander.
- Author
- Englander, Nathan
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-2917 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 203 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father. Larry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews. When his father dies, it is his responsibility as the surviving son to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. To the horror and dismay of his mother and sisters, Larry refuses--thus imperiling the fate of his father's soul. To appease them, and in penance for failing to mourn his father correctly, he hatches an ingenious if cynical plan, hiring a stranger through a website called Kaddish.com to recite the daily prayer and shepherd his father's soul safely to rest. This is Nathan Englander's freshest and funniest work to date--a satire that touches, lightly and with unforgettable humor, on the conflict between religious and secular worlds, and the hypocrisies that run through both. A novel about atonement; about spiritual redemption; and about the soul-sickening temptations of the internet, which, like God, is everywhere"--
- "The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father"--
- Alternative Title
- Kaddish dot com
- Subject
- Kaddish > Fiction
- Kaddish
- Jewish families > Tennessee > Memphis > Fiction
- Internet > Religious aspects > Judaism > Fiction
- Fathers > Death > Fiction
- Atheism > Fiction
- Orthodox Judaism > Fiction
- Grief > Fiction
- Internet > Fiction
- Families > Fiction
- FICTION > Literary
- FICTION > Jewish
- FICTION > Family Life
- Atheism
- Families
- Fathers > Death
- Grief
- Internet
- Orthodox Judaism
- Genre/Form
- FICTION / Literary.
- FICTION / Jewish.
- FICTION / Family Life.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-2917
- ISBN
- 9781524732752
- 1524732753
- LCCN
- 2018039092
- OCLC
- 1038239157
- Author
- Englander, Nathan, author.
- Title
- Kaddish.com / Nathan Englander.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Englander, Nathan. Kaddish.com. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019 9781524732769 (DLC) 2018040330
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-2917