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The Ministry of Special Cases - Nathan Englander, Arthur Morey
The Ministry of Special Cases
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Format: audiobook
ISBN: 9781415936429 (1415936420)
Publisher: Books on Tape
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens, Novels, Literature, Book Club, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adult, Jewish, Contemporary
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madbkwm
madbkwm rated it
2.0
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So as much as I dislike short stories. I really felt like this looong (415 page) book should have been a short story. I found the topic interesting (coping mechanisms of family during a political coup and resulting "disappearances"); I also respected Englander's attempt at literary appeal with all...
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audreyhawkins
audreyhawkins rated it
5.0
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I haven't read Englander's collection of short stories, but the fact that most people rate them above this novel is surprising to me. I have a hard time imagining a short story collection I could love as much as this novel and its characters.
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Chrissie's Books
Chrissie's Books rated it
3.0
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Surprise! Surprise! What life throws at you cannot be understood. There is no logic or reason to what happens. At best, all you can do is try to accommodate yourself to the cards dealt you. More specifically the book concerned one Jewish family and what happened to them during Argentina's Dirty Wars...
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The Ministry of Special Cases (Vintage International) - Nathan Englander
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Fever at Dawn - Peter Gardos, Arthur Morey, Random House Audiobooks
To the End of the Land - David Grossman, Jessica Cohen, Arthur Morey
Dead Souls (Library Edition) - Nikolai G... Dead Souls (Library Edition) - Nikolai Gogol, Arthur Morey
George Rodger: Big Boys Don't Cry - Carole Naggar, Arthur Morey
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination - Neal Gabler, Dove Books on Tape, Arthur Morey
Books by Nathan Englander
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank - Nathan Englander
The Ministry of Special Cases - Nathan Englander
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges - Nathan Englander
The Best American Short Stories 2011 - Heidi Pitlor, Elizabeth McCracken, George Saunders, Sam Lipsyte, Joyce Carol Oates, Geraldine Brooks, Richard Powers, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Steven Millhauser, Bret Anthony Johnston, Allegra Goodman, Nathan Englander, Tom Bissell, Claire Keegan, Jennifer Egan, Ehud H
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 - Dave Eggers, Marjane Satrapi, Rivka Galchen, Anne Gisleson, David Grann, Denis Johnson, Tom Kaczynski, Yannick Murphy, Matthew Power, Olivier Schrauwen, Nick Twemlow, Émile Bravo, Castle Freeman Jr., Eula Biss, Philip Connors, Nathan Englander, Nick Flynn, Jonathan Franze
McSweeney's #28 - Dave Eggers, Daniel Alarcón, Sheila Heti, Nathan Englander
OIF (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading) - Phil Klay, Nathan Englander
In This Way We Are Wise: A Short Story from For the Relief of Unbearable Urges - Nathan Englander, Paul Michael
New American Haggadah - Jonathan Safran Foer, Nathan Englander
The Wig: A Short Story from For the Relief of Unbearable Urges - Nathan Englander, Susan Denaker
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