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592 pages. In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, 'Abraham!' to order him to sacrif ice his son Isaac, Abraham responds, 'Here I am.' Later, when Isaac calls out, ' My father!' to ask him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, 'H ere I am.' How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own id entities when our lives are linked so closely to others'? These are the question s at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel in eleven years--a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy. Unfolding over four tumultuous w eeks, in present-day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing fa mily in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia and their three sons are forced t o confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives th ey are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating con flict in the Middle East. At stake is the very meaning of home--and the fundamen tal question of how much life one can bear. Showcasing the same high-energy inve ntiveness, hilarious irreverence, and emotional urgency that readers and critics loved in his earlier work, Here I Am is Foer's most searching, hard-hitting, an d grandly entertaining novel yet. It not only confirms Foer's stature as a dazzl ing literary talent but reveals a mature novelist who has fully come into his ow n as one of the most important writers of his generation.--.…
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- Title
- Here I Am
- Author
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0241146186
- ISBN 13
- 9780241146187
- Dimensions
- 15.4cm x 23.3cm
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction
The New York Times bestselling new novel about modern family lives -- from the author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jacob and Julia Bloch have a problem - several problems, in fact.
While they've been coaxing Jacob's grandfather into a retirement home, bracing themselves for a family reunion, and struggling to keep their eldest son from being expelled, a discovery is made that risks destroying their marriage.
As domestic crises multiply in the foreground, a global disaster is looming on the horizon. The Bloch family is collapsing and so is the Middle East where a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict - and every man, woman and child must decide where they will stand.
Here I Am marks an ambitious new departure for Jonathan Safran Foer, achieving extraordinary scope and emotional resonance while maintaining the trademark inventiveness and irreverence of his much-loved previous novels. Confronting the enduring question of what it means to be human, Here I Am is a great American novel for our times, a masterpiece about how we live now.
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