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 *
Provocative . . . very, very funny. Dialogue pings, as animated and
inventive as an Aaron Sorkin script. * Sunday Times *
Terrific, truthful, extremely funny and heartbreaking. * New
Statesman *
A rich, beautifully written, ambitious and grandly moving novel,
which looks both at the world at large and at the deepest concerns
of individual lives. * Evening Standard *
Astonishing. So sad and so funny and so wry. The book that The
Corrections ought to have been * Scotland on Sunday *
Brilliant, masterly, always original * New York Times Book Review *
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