Hope: A Tragedy (pb)
By (author): Shalom Auslander
Possibly the funniest novel of the decade'' Sunday Times, Books of the Decade 2010-2019
Solomon Kugel has had enough of the past and its burdens. So, in the hope of starting afresh, he moved his family to a small rural town where nothing of import has ever happened.
Sadly, Kugel''s life isn''t that simple. His family soon find themselves threatened by a local arsonist and his ailing mother won''t stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she didn''t actually suffer through. And when, one night, Kugel discovers a living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of history hiding in his attic, bad very quickly becomes worse.
''The humour, at times can leave you gasping . . . comic brilliance'' Sunday Times
''Singularly inventive and superbly shocking . . . nothing short of genius'' Scotland on Sunday
''He will make you laugh until your heart breaks'' New York Times Book Review