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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Excellent black humor. ( ) "Hope: A Tragedy" by Shalom Auslander is about Solomon Kugel who leaves NYC for the suburbs with his wife Bree, his son Jonah aged three, and his elderly, dying mother. Although his mother was born in NYC in 1945 where generations of her family have lived, she believes she was interned in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. This fixation probably drove her husband away when Kugel and his sister were children. One night Kugel cannot sleep because of tapping noises coming from the attic. He investigates and finds a very old woman who claims she is Anne Frank who survived the Holocaust. The tapping noise comes from Anne's typing her new book. Anne has lived her life in people's attics since the Holocaust. She now resides in the attic of Kugel’s farmhouse. Anne sleeps during the day and writes at night, similarly to how she and her family hid during the Holocaust. Kugel’s finding Anne totally upends his life. Ultimately, he loses his tenant, his job, and the affections of his wife. He is unable to throw Anne Frank out -- after all, how could a Jew throw Anne Frank out of an attic? Wasn't that what the Nazis did? Meanwhile, his mother, after meeting Anne, stops focusing on her false Holocaust memories and works with Kugel to take care of Anne. And, in the midst of all this, an arsonist is loose in town, torching farmhouses like Kugel's. Auslander’s upbringing in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family in Monsey, NY, which he left behind certainly permeates his work and his irreverent sense of humor. The reviewer, Sam Leith of The Guardian, said of Auslander: "Anyone who has read Auslander before will know that when I say 'applies his satirical scalpel,' I mean something more like 'tosses a hand-grenade and runs away laughing'.” Auslander may not be for everyone but he reminds one of Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Groucho Marx, and David Sedaris. His latest book, "Mother for Dinner," is about cannibal-Americans, a proxy for Jews, and their difficulties assimilating in America while maintaining their traditions and religious practices, including eating their dead relatives. Roberta Gerson sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Solomon Kugel se traslada con su familia a una casa rural en Stockton, Estados Unidos, un poblado donde nunca ha pasado nada, del que no ha salido nadie famoso… excepto un pirómano muy activo en los últimos tiempos. Kugel quiere empezar una vida nueva, quitarse de encima el peso de la historia; la suya, personal y familiar, y la de su pueblo. Porque ambas historias parecen una y la misma. Su madre solo ha estado en un campo de concentración durante una visita turística, pero se comporta como si fuera Ana Frank. Hasta que un olor fétido y unos ruiditos llevan a Kugel a descubrir a una mujer que lleva treinta o cuarenta años escondida en el desván (se trata, al fin y al cabo, de una casa antigua). Y que dice ser, ella sí, Ana Frank. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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