The Netanyahus

Häftad bok. NYRB. 2021.

Mycket gott skick. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Books of 2021
One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2021
One of Kirkus's Best Fiction Books of 2021
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian-but not an historian of the Jews-is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with nonfiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.
No one writing in English today is more gifted than Joshua Cohen.
Every page of The Netanyahus-a historical account of a man left out of history, a wickedly funny fable of the return of the repressed-crackles with Cohen's high style and joyride intelligence.
-Nicole Krauss
The Netanyahus is constructed with a brilliant comic grace that moves from the sly to the exuberant. Some scenes are funny beyond belief. But even when moments in the book are sharp or melancholy, they keep an undertone of witty and ironic observation. The vision in this book is deeply original, making clear what a superb writer Joshua Cohen is.
-Colm Tóibín
Cohen is an extraordinary prose stylist, surely one of the most prodigious in American fiction today.... A crystalline novelist with a journalistic openness to the world.
-James Wood, The New Yorker.