The Netanyahus
Books | Fiction / Biographical
3.5
Joshua Cohen
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION2021 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2021 A KIRKUS BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021"Absorbing, delightful, hilarious, breathtaking and the best and most relevant novel I’ve read in what feels like forever." —Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The New York Times Book Review 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 nonfiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.
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Author
Joshua Cohen
Pages
248
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Published Date
2021-06-22
ISBN
1681376075 9781681376073
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"This book was outrageous 🙌. The Netanyahu family acted so rude and intolerable omg. Also I was completely blindsided by Judie acting out, ensuring a nose job and then having sex with some random kid. Poor Professor Blum, just hearing him go through all that with his family too, I would have been packing my bags trying to get the hell out of dodge. At that point, the school and Netanyahu family were dead to me. Excellent book "
Kendell Lyssy
"Humor and advanced vocabulary!"
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