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Books by Nathan Englander






kaddish.com(First Edition)
A novel
by Nathan Englander
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by Knopf
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-3275-2, ISBN: 1-5247-3275-3

"The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his fatherLarry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews. When his father dies, it is his responsibility as the surviving son to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. To the horror and d ..."






Kaddish.com
by Nathan Englander
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by W&N
ISBN-13: 978-1-4746-1103-9, ISBN: 1-4746-1103-6

"Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. When his father dies, it's his responsibility to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. To the horror and dismay of his sister, Larry refuses - imperilling the fate of his father's soul. To appease her, Larry hatches an ingenious if cynical plan, hiring a stranger through a website called kaddish.com to recite the prayer and shepher ..."






What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank(Reprint)
Stories (Vintage International)
by Nathan Englander
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2013 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-94960-8, ISBN: 0-307-94960-5

"A New York Times Notable BookAn NPR Best Book of 2012These eight powerful stories, dazzling in their display of language and imagination, show a celebrated short-story writer and novelist grappling with the great questions of modern life. From the title story, a provocative portrait of two marriages inspired by Raymond Carver’s masterpiece, to “Peep Show” and “How We Avenged the Blums,” two stories that return to the author’s classic th ..."






The Ministry of Special Cases(1st Edition)
by Nathan Englander
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2007 by Knopf
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-40493-1, ISBN: 0-375-40493-7

"The long-awaited novel from Nathan Englander, author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. Englander’s wondrous and much-heralded collection of stories won the 2000 Pen/Malamud Award and was translated into more than a dozen languages. From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. In the heart of Argentina’s Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan s ..."






Dinner at the Center of the Earth(1st Edition)
A novel
by Nathan Englander
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2017 by Knopf
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-3273-8, ISBN: 1-5247-3273-7

"The best work yet from the Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges--a political thriller that unfolds in the highly charged territory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and pivots on the complex relationship between a secret prisoner and his guard. A prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched over him a dozen years. An American waitress in Paris. A young Palestinian man in Berlin who st ..."






What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank(1st Edition)
Stories
by Nathan Englander
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2012 by Knopf
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-95870-9, ISBN: 0-307-95870-1

"These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.   The title story, inspired by Raymond Carver’s masterpiece, is a provocative portrait of two marriages in which the Holocaust is played out a ..."






For the Relief of Unbearable Urges(1st Edition)
Stories
by Nathan Englander, Peggy Guggenheim
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1999 by Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-40492-4, ISBN: 0-375-40492-9

"For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is an astonishment. Whether Nathan Englander is creating the last days of 27 condemned Soviet writers or the first in which a Park Avenue lawyer finds religion (in a taxi, no less), his gift is everywhere in evidence. Englander's specialty is the collision of Jewish law and tradition with secular realities, whether in Brooklyn, Tel Aviv, or Stalinist Russia. In one tale, a wigmaker from an ultra-orthod ..."






New American Haggadah
by Jonathan Safran Foer, Nathan Englander
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2012 by Little, Brown And Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-316-06986-1, ISBN: 0-316-06986-8

"Read each year around the seder table, the Haggadah recounts through prayer, song, and ritual the extraordinary story of Exodus, when Moses led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt to wander the desert for forty years before reaching the Promised Land. Now, Jonathan Safran Foer has orchestrated a new way of experiencing and understanding one of our oldest, most timeless, and sacred stories, with a new translation of the traditional te ..."






Kaddish.com
(Paperback)
by Nathan Englander
Paperback, Published 2020 by Vintage, United States
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-43405-4, ISBN: 0-525-43405-4






Dinner at the Center of the Earth(Reprint)
(Vintage International)
by Nathan Englander
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2018 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-43404-7, ISBN: 0-525-43404-6

"The much-anticipated new novel from the Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges--a political thriller set against the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the Negev desert, a nameless prisoner languishes in a secret cell, his only companion the guard who has watched over him for a dozen years. Meanwhile, the prisoner's arch nemesis--The General, Israel's most controversial leader--lies dying in a hospita ..."






Dinner at the Centre of the Earth
by Nathan Englander
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2018 by W&N
ISBN-13: 978-1-4746-0797-1, ISBN: 1-4746-0797-7

"'One of our most consistently brilliant, bold and funny writers' Dave Eggers'His writing is liberal in every good sense of the word' Jonathan FranzenA spellbinding thriller. A spy novel. A love story . . . Prisoner Z, held at a black site in the Negev desert for a dozen years, has only his guard for company. How does a nice American Jewish boy from Long Island wind up an Israeli spy working for Mossad, and later, a traitor to his adopte ..."






The Ministry of Special Cases(Reprint)
(Vintage International)
by Nathan Englander
Paperback, 339 Pages, Published 2008 by Vintage
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70444-4, ISBN: 0-375-70444-2

"From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, the debut novel from the Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges 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 exi ..."






What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. Worüber wir reden, wenn wir über Anne Frank reden, englische Ausgabe
by Nathan Englander
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2012 by W&N
ISBN-13: 978-0-297-86769-2, ISBN: 0-297-86769-5






Electric Literature No. 6
(Paperback)
by Nathan Englander, Mary Otis, Matt Sumell, Steve Edwards, Marc Basch
Paperback, 142 Pages, Published 2011 by Electric Literature
ISBN-13: 978-0-9824980-9-5, ISBN: 0-9824980-9-8

"Electric Literature's sixth anthology travels highways, the waters of New York's harbors, and the grooves of a burned out LP. In Matt Sumell's "OK," a son visits his stubbornly suicidal father at his flea infested home.In "Where We Missed Was Everywhere," by Mary Otis, a brother and sister seek refuge from a funeral in a Beach Boys classic. The siblings in Marc Basch's "Three" react to one brother's dealings with a kid bully they encoun ..."






The Ministry of Special Cases
by Nathan Englander
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2008 by Faber And Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-23543-8, ISBN: 0-571-23543-3






The Ministry Of Special Cases
by Nathan Englander
Published 2007 by Alfred A Knopf 2007 Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-7394-8828-7, ISBN: 0-7394-8828-7






For Relief of Unbearable Urges
by Nathan Englander, Du Maurier
Paperback, 1 Pages, Published 1999 by Faber And Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-20188-4, ISBN: 0-571-20188-1

"For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is an astonishment. Whether Nathan Englander is creating the last days of 27 condemned Soviet writers or the first in which a Park Avenue lawyer finds religion (in a taxi, no less), his gift is everywhere in evidence. Englander's specialty is the collision of Jewish law and tradition with secular realities, whether in Brooklyn, Tel Aviv, or Stalinist Russia. In one tale, a wigmaker from an ultra-orthod ..."






New American Haggadah(Reprint)
by Jonathan Safran Foer, Nathan Englander
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2014 by Little, Brown And Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-316-06987-8, ISBN: 0-316-06987-6

"Read each year around the seder table, the Haggadah recounts through prayer, song, and ritual the extraordinary story of Exodus, when Moses led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt to wander the desert for forty years before reaching the Promised Land. Now, Jonathan Safran Foer has orchestrated a new way of experiencing and understanding one of our oldest, most timeless, and sacred stories, with a new translation of the traditional t ..."






Kaddish.com
(Paperback)
by Nathan Englander
Paperback, Published 2019 by Cengage Learning, Inc, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-984883-25-4, ISBN: 1-984883-25-9






What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
by Nathan Englander
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Orion Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-78022-229-5, ISBN: 1-78022-229-7

"A FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD-winning, simply stunning short-story collection by one of America's most critically acclaimed young writers. From the up-and-coming young American writer who has contributed to McSweeney's and written for THE NEW YORKER comes a masterful collection of short stories that has already received rave reviews from many of the most prominent writers working today. Some of the stories are comic masterpieces, some embody a ..."



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