My Holocaust: A Novel - Softcover

Reich, Tova

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061173479 ISBN 13: 9780061173479

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

Successful father-and-son business partners Maurice and Norman Messer know a good product when they see it. That product is the Holocaust--and they market it enthusiastically. Maurice is a survivor with a self-inflated personal history. Norman enjoys vicarious victimhood via the second-generation movement. And nothing will prevent them from pushing their agenda and reaping the rewards. Not guilt, pride, or ethics. Not the disappearance of Norman's daughter, Nechama, into the Carmelite convent at Auschwitz or her reemergence as Sister Consolatia of the Cross. Not even the violent takeover of America's most powerful Holocaust memorialization institution by an angry coalition of self-styled "victims" eagerly seeking Holocaust status.

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Review:

"viciously funny, head-spinning...this novel is clearly in its own class"--Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

"subversive, painful, brilliant, and, yes, both laugh-out-loud funny and illuminating..."--Los Angeles Times

"Serious and hilarious and utterly scathing... Tova Reich is the master of fury's return"--Washington Post Book World

"A deliciously wicked satirical novel"--The Forward

"a creation that surpasses mere chutzpah on its way to the profound"--Entertainment Weekly

"Reich has assembled an outlandish cast...[My Holocaust] is piercing and perceptive and cuts a wide swath."--Booklist

..".Reich's satire is...cynical...often hilarious--and likely to cause a scandal."--Publishers Weekly

..".it surely will be the subject of much discussion."--Library Journal

..".provocative satire...powerful darts of wit and perception... clever..."--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author:

Tova Reich is the author of the novels Mara, Master of the Return, and The Jewish War. Her stories have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, AGNI, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. In 1996, she won the National Magazine Award for her story "The Lost Girl." She lives outside Washington, D.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061173479
• ISBN 13: 9780061173479
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336