Joshua Cohen

Witz (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

From Joshua Cohenwinner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prizecomes one of the great comic epics of our time, newly restored in this definitive edition.



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 rapidly ascends to international fame, Jewishness becomes all the rage: matzo-ball soup is in every bowl, sidelocks are hip; while Israelien, the only truly Jewish Jew left, is increasingly stigmatized for refusing to perform his religion. Since his very existence exposes the illegitimacy of the newly converted, Israelien becomes a wanted man just as quickly as he had become a famous one.



Elsewhere, in the not-too-distant future of our own, real world, another last Jewthe last living Holocaust survivorsits snowbound in his Manhattan apartment, telling jokes that he only half-remembers. A final, melancholy witness, attempting to find the punch line for a century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781628976601
• Artikelnr.: 75251903

Autorenporträt

Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. His books include the novels The Netanyahus, winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Moving Kings, Book of Numbers, Witz, A Heaven of Others, and Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto; the short-fiction collection Four New Messages, and the nonfiction collection Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction.