Here I Am
Jonathan Safran Foer
Here I am ´Dazzling ... A profound novel about the claims of identity, history, family, and the burdens of a broken world.´ Maureen Corrigan, NPR´s Fresh Air ´Here I Am is one of those books...which lays bare the interior of a marriage with such intelligence and deep feeling and pitiless clarity, it´s impossible to read it and not re-examine your own family, and your place in i...
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Here I am ´Dazzling ... A profound novel about the claims of identity, history, family, and the burdens of a broken world.´ Maureen Corrigan, NPR´s Fresh Air ´Here I Am is one of those books...which lays bare the interior of a marriage with such intelligence and deep feeling and pitiless clarity, it´s impossible to read it and not re-examine your own family, and your place in it.´ Lev Grossman, Time ´[Foer] imbues Here I Am with raw emotion and genuine empathy. Jacob is a sympathetic character, his story hums with energy.´ Chicago Tribune ´Brilliantly funny, stealthily heart-crushing.´ W magazine ´Safran Foer is the absolute master of his fiction universe.´ Times Literary Supplement ´Brilliant, always original . . . Shows a masterly sense of timing and structure and deep feeling.´ Daniel Menaker, The New York Times Book Review ´Here I Am has more teeming life in it than several hundred well-meaning and well-reviewed books of midlist fiction put together.´ Dwight Garner, The New York Times Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia Bloch and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the meaning of home—and the fundamental question of how much aliveness one can bear. One of the year´s most anticipated novels, Here I Am is bestselling Safran Foer´s most searching, hard-hitting, and grandly entertaining novel yet.
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