An Evening with Best-selling Author Nathan Englander
Organization:
The Oshman Family JCC
Category:
Literary
Geographical Area:
San Jose
Start
Date:
10/2/2017
End Date:
10/2/2017
Start Time:
8:00 PM
End Time:
9:30 PM
Event
Info:
Join us for a conversation with Nathan Englander discussing his new book "Dinner at the Center of the Earth", a political thriller that unfolds in the highly charged territory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and pivots on the relationship between a secret prisoner and his guard.
A prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched over him for years. An American waitress in Paris. A young Palestinian man in Berlin, friends with a wealthy Canadian businessman. And The General, Israel's most controversial leader, dying in a hospital, the only man who knows of the prisoner's existence.
From these very different lives, Englander has woven a suspenseful portrait of a nation riven by insoluble conflict, even as the lives of its citizens become inextricably entwined. It shows the anguished, violent division between Israelis and Palestinians, and dramatizes moral ambiguities haunting both sides. Who is right, who is wrong who is the guard, who is truly the prisoner? A tour de force from one of America's most acclaimed voices in contemporary fiction.
Englander is a best-selling author of the novel "The Ministry of Special Cases" and the story collections "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges" and "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank," winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His short fiction has been widely anthologized, most recently in "100 Years of the Best American Short Stories." His play, "The Twenty-Seventh Man," premiered in 2012. He also translated the New American Haggadah and co-translated Etgar Keret's "Suddenly a Knock on the Door." He is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University, and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter.
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