Shalom Auslander Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

A memoir of Shalom Auslander's attempt to escape the biblical story he'd been raised on and his struggle to construct a new story for himself and his family.

An outrageously tasty comedy about identity, tribalism and mothers.

Shalom Auslander si pro svůj příběh zvolil skutečně zvláštní a poměrně kontroverzní zápletku – představte si Annu Frankovou, živou, zdravou a co do chování nechutnou babiznu, která se zabydlí na půdě domu patřícímu současné americké židovské rodině. Jakkoliv je její existence bizarní, slouží Anne Franková v příběhu jako katalyzátor nezvratitelných událostí a veškerý děj se soustředí kolem hlavního hrdiny – otce rodiny, Solomona Kugela. Rodina Solomona Kugela se přestěhuje do městečka Stockton, které je nejzajímavější tím, že nemá žádnou historii. A právě historii se Kugelovi snaží uniknout – jak své rodinné, tak židovské, nesoucí s sebou břímě viny a osudovosti. Celá kniha je tak skvělou, mrazivě vtipnou, černěhumornou polemikou o nemožnosti zbavit se své minulosti a o dvojsečné povaze naděje, jež může být i zhoubná.

Foreskin's Lament reveals Auslander's youth in a strict, socially isolated Orthodox community, and recounts his rebellion and efforts to make a new life apart from it. Auslander remembers his youthful attempt to win the ‘blessing bee’ (the Orthodox version of a spelling bee), his exile to reform school in Israel after being caught shoplifting a cassette tape of West Side Story, and his twenty-five-mile hike to watch the New York Rangers play in Madison Square Garden without violating the Sabbath. Throughout, Auslander struggles to understand God and His complicated, often contradictory laws. But ultimately, he settles for a ceasefire with God, accepting the very slim remaining hope that his newborn son might live free of guilt, doubt, and struggle. Auslander’s combination of unrelenting humour and anger – a voice that compares to those of David Sedaris and Dave Eggers – delivers a rich and fascinating self-portrait of a man grappling with his faith, family, and community. Praise for Shalom Auslander 'There is a serious point to Auslander's fictional games. He wants us to be careful of taking any figure of authority too seriously; God is just the prime example . . . Its real heroes are literary: writers such as James Joyce and Samuel Beckett who use prose to get at something more mysterious and mystical than any religion - our love of and trust in language, to amuse and distract us from death' Times Literary Supplement

Featuring wide-ranging and inventive tales of violent rabbis, lovelorn wives, a busy grim reaper, shame-filled simians and one seriously angry deity, this collection of disquieting stories from Shalom Auslander includes stories with themes such as sex, shame, God and death