Here I Am

Author(s): Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction

A monumental new novel about modern family lives from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close God asked Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac, and Abraham replied obediently, "Here I am." This is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. Over the course of three weeks in present-day Washington DC, three sons watch their parents' marriage falter and their family home fall apart. Meanwhile, a larger catastrophe is engulfing another part of the world: a massive earthquake devastates the Middle East, sparking a pan-Arab invasion of Israel. With global upheaval in the background and domestic collapse in the foreground, Jonathan Safran Foer ask us - what is the true meaning of home? Can one man ever reconcile the conflicting duties of his many roles - husband, father, son? And how much of life can a person bear?


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A brilliantly acrobatic imagination Sunday Times Foer writes like a dream... big-hearted, courageous and jaw-droppingly clever -- Deborah Moggach

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Eating Animals. He has also edited a new modern edition of the sacred Jewish Haggadah. He edited the anthology A Convergence of Birds and his stories have been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions and the New Yorker. Everything Is Illuminated won the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award. Jonathan Safran Foer teaches Creative Writing at New York University.

General Fields

  • : 9780241146187
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : Hamish Hamilton Ltd
  • : 0.758
  • : May 2016
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : September 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jonathan Safran Foer
  • : Paperback
  • : 916
  • : en
  • : 320