Exuberantly funny and deeply moving, a monumental American novel about family, identity and modern life.
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Eating Animals and Here I Am. He has also edited a new modern edition of the sacred Jewish Haggadah. Everything Is Illuminated won several literary prizes, including the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award. He edited the anthology A Convergence of Birds- Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, and his stories have been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions and the New Yorker. Jonathan Safran Foer teaches Creative Writing at New York University.
Publisher's description. The New York Times bestselling new novel
from the author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Wildly
exhilarating and profoundly moving, this is the story of a man in
crisis, a family imploding, a planet on the brink of disaster. Here
I Am is a great American novel for our times, a masterpiece about
how we live now.
*Penguin*
Towering and glorious: a tale of social, familial and marital
breakdown . . . and the End of the World. The funniest literary
novel I have ever read
*The Times*
An ambitious platter of intellection and emotion. Its observations
are crisp; its intimations of doom resonate; its jokes are funny.
Foer's best and most caustic novel, filled with so much pain and
regret that your heart sometimes struggles to hold it all. Has more
teeming life in it than several hundred well-meaning and
well-reviewed books of midlist fiction put together
*New York Times*
Foer writes like a dream. . . big-hearted, courageous and
jaw-droppingly clever
*Deborah Moggach*
A darkly hilarious mile-a-minute novel
*Guardian*
Foer has stretched and expanded the possibilities of the novel
without losing either intellectual integrity or emotional honesty.
Here I Am is not just bold, it is brave... It will be remembered
when all the dinner party novels are long forgotten
*Scotsman*
Highly enjoyable and extremely funny... Foer is an absolute master
of his fictional universe
*Times Literary Supplement*
Emotional depth and dramatic maturity... Unarguably Foer's most
substantial and impressive work yet
*Herald*
Lays bare the interior of a marriage with such intelligence and
deep feeling and pitiless clarity, it's impossible to read it and
not re-examine your own family.
*TIME*
A brilliantly acrobatic imagination
*Sunday Times*
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