THE MINISTRY OF SPECIAL CASES by Nathan Englander 特案部长
分類: 图书,进口原版书,小说 Fiction ,
作者: Nathan Englander 著
出 版 社: 武汉大学出版社
出版时间: 2008-1-1字数:版次: 1页数: 414印刷时间:开本: 32开印次: 1纸张:I S B N : 9780307389725包装: 平装内容简介
From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgot-ten cemetery in Buenos Aires, Nathan Englander's debut novel The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. In the heart of Argentina's Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan struggles with a son who won't accept him; strives for a wife who forever saves him; and
spends his nights protecting the good name of a community that denies his existence. When the nightmare of the disappeared chil-dren brings the Poznan family to its knees, they are thrust into the unyielding corridors of the Ministry of Special Cases, a terrifying, byzantine refuge of last resort. Through the devastation of a single family, Englander brilliantly captures the grief of a nation.