In his Jewish short story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (), Nathan Englander celebrates what it means to be Jewish, and how to cope with the demands of Orthodox Judaism. Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, it received various other award nominations. The stories in For the Relief of Unbearable Urges are powerfully inventive and often haunting, steeped in the weight of Jewish history and in the customs of Orthodox life. But it is in the largeness of their spirit– a spirit that finds in doubt a doorway to faith, that sees in despair a chance for the heart to deepen–and in the wisdom that so prodigiously transcends the author’s twenty-eight years, that these stories are truly Pages: For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a work of startling authority and imagination--a book that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad. It hearalds the arrival of a remarkable new storyteller/5(89).
A debut collection of nine stories that explore the condition of being Jewish with an often hallucinatory, epigrammatic eloquence that is, as advertised, reminiscent of the fiction of Isaac Singer, Saul Bellow, and especially Bernard Malamud. The pieces are set variously in contemporary Brooklyn Heights and Jerusalem, Nazi-ravaged Europe, and Stalinist Russia, and they feature such comically. In his Jewish short story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (), Nathan Englander celebrates what it means to be Jewish, and how to cope with the demands of Orthodox bltadwin.ru of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, it received various other award nominations. Critics praise the book for its inventiveness and its blend of humor and sadness. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a collection of short stories written by American author Nathan Englander. Englander is a writer who has published four books and won several prizes, international and local, for his excellent work. His books were sold worldwide and loved by many.
The stories in For the Relief of Unbearable Urges are powerfully inventive and often haunting, steeped in the weight of Jewish history and in the customs of Orthodox life. But it is in the largeness of their spirit– a spirit that finds in doubt a doorway to faith, that sees in despair a chance for the heart to deepen–and in the wisdom that so prodigiously transcends the author’s twenty-eight years, that these stories are truly remarkable. In his Jewish short story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (), Nathan Englander celebrates what it means to be Jewish, and how to cope with the demands of Orthodox Judaism. Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, it received various other award nominations. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a work of stunning authority and imagination--a book that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad, and that heralds the arrival of a profoundly gifted new storyteller.
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