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En la navidad de 1959, Ruben Blum, un historiador judío, es elegido en la universidad de Corbin para valorar la aplicación de un exiliado israelí especializado en la inquisición española. Se trata de Benzion Netanyahu, padre del ex-presidente de Israel Benjamín Netanyahu. Joshua Cohen mezcla ficción y realidad en esta novela de campus que pudo escribir gracias a su amistad con Harold Bloom. Los Netanyahus es una comedia...
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Benjamin Gold is damaged goods. After he cracked up in the war and was discharged into a psych ward, his rich wife dumped him. Right after that, the white-shoe law firm that never hired Jews dumped him too; without powerful in-laws, it didn't matter how many cases he won or how much he shortened his name. Unemployable as a lawyer, he wound up working as a private eye-and not exactly at the top of the profession. Drunk and anorectic, his only remaining...
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Cuatro mensajes nuevos de Joshua Cohen nos muestra la banalidad de la manipulación a la que estamos sometidos. Una manipulación que responde a las consecuencias de inventos aparentemente inofensivos: la hamburguesa, las redes sociales o el porno digital.
En Emisión, un desafortunado traficante de drogas en Princeton se siente humillado cuando una de sus noches vergonzosas se vuelve viral. McDonald's habla de un redactor farmacéutico frustrado...
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On Christmas Eve 1999, all the Jews in the world die in a strange, millennial plague, with the exception of the firstborn males, who are soon adopted by a cabal of powerful people in the American government. By the following Passover, however, only one is still alive: Benjamin Israelien; a kindly, innocent, ignorant man-child. As he finds himself transformed into an international superstar, Jewishness becomes all the rage: matzo-ball soup is in every...
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Yoav y Uri, jóvenes veteranos de la última guerra de Gaza, llegan en 2015 a Nueva York después de completar el servicio militar israelí.Trabajan en la empresa de mudanzas de David King, un primo lejano de Yoav, judío republicano y en plena crisis existencial.
A través del absurdo trabajo de vaciar casas y desahuciar, Joshua Cohen nos muestra una sociedad interracial y desestructurada en la que sus miembros pueden terminar estallando.
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Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian-but not an historian of the Jews-is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with...
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Chansons poétiques est la transcription de plusieurs émotions. Regroupant cinq albums, c'est également un recueil de textes romantiques, élégants mais décalés, classiques mais pas vraiment... une suite musicale à laquelle l'auteur vous donne le loisir de poser votre tempo.
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Part Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger, part Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, this debut YA novel tells the incredibly powerful story of bullying and how—taken to the extreme—it can wreak havoc on the lives of teenagers. Kurt is a talented but emotionally damaged football player. Danny is a rising star on the gymnastics team, an outsider in a school where the football team rules. But the two form an unlikely friendship, and when one of the gym...