{"product_id":"the-jewish-messiah-isbn-9780143114970","title":"The Jewish Messiah","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe new novel by the internationally acclaimed author- \"a farce of nuclear proportions\"(\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArnon Grunberg is one of the most subtly outrageous provocateurs in world literature. \u003ci\u003eThe Jewish Messiah\u003c\/i\u003e, which chronicles the evolution of one Xavier Radek from malcontent grandson of a former SS officer, to Jewish convert, to co- translator of Hitler's \u003ci\u003eMein Kampf\u003c\/i\u003e into Yiddish, to Israeli politician and Israel's most unlikely prime minister, is his most outrageous work yet. Taking on the most well-guarded pieties and taboos of our age, \u003ci\u003eThe Jewish Messiah\u003c\/i\u003e is both a great love story and a grotesque farce that forces a profound reckoning with the limits of human guilt, cruelty, and suffering. It is without question Arnon Grunberg's masterpiece.\"Grunberg rejects self-serving existentialism, confronts real-world torture, genocide, terrorism, and personal crimes of the heart, and he infuses his visceral, wily satire with biblical fury.\" \u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \"Arnon Grunberg is known for writing incendiary novels, but...\u003ci\u003eThe Jewish Messiah\u003c\/i\u003e pushes his bleak sense of humor into new realms....Much more than an impolite screed; Grunberg wants to incite dialogue, not controversy.\"\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eArnon Grunberg\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eBlue Mondays\u003c\/i\u003e, an international bestseller that won the Anton Wachter Prize for a debut novel. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003ePhantom Pain\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the AKO Prize (the Dutch equivalent of the Booker). He currently lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSam Garrett\u003c\/b\u003e has won prizes and appeared on short lists for some of the world’s most prestigious literary awards for his translations of some 30 novels and works of non-fiction. Garrett is the only translator to have twice won the British Society of Authors’ Vondel Prize for Dutch-English translation (in 2003 and again in 2009). In 2012, his translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Dinner\u003c\/i\u003e by Herman Koch spent two months on\u003ci\u003e the New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller list and became the most popular Dutch novel ever translated into English. Garrett’s translation of Tim Krabbe’s \u003ci\u003eThe Rider\u003c\/i\u003e is considered a cycling cult classic. Other works of his have been short-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (2005 and 2013), the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Award (2010), the PEN Translation Prize (2014), and the Best Translated Book Award (2014). He divides his time between Amsterdam and the French Pyrenees.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300294086885,"sku":"NP9780143114970","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143114970.jpg?v=1767740003","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-jewish-messiah-isbn-9780143114970","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}