New American Haggadah

by Jonathan Safran Foer, Nathan Englander (Translator)

Overview

Jonathan Safran Foer's and Nathan Englander's spectacular Haggadah-now in paperback.

Upon hardcover publication, NEW AMERICAN HAGGADAH was praised as a momentous re-envisioning through prayer, song, and ritual of one of our oldest, most timeless, and sacred stories-Moses leading the ancient Israelites out of slavery in Egypt to wander the desert for 40 years before reaching the Promised Land. Featuring a new translation of the traditional text by Nathan Englander and provocative essays by a collection of major Jewish writers and thinkers, it was received not only as a religious document but a magnificent literary and artistic achievement. Now, after two years of patience, those readers who asked for a paperback edition have gotten their wish.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316069878
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	03/04/2014
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 10.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Eating Animals. His books have been translated into thirty-six languages. Everything Is Illuminated received a National Jewish Book Award and a Guardian First Book Award, and was made into a film by Liev Schreiber. Foer lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the novelist Nicole Krauss, and their children.

Nathan Englander is the author of the novel, The Ministry of Special Cases, the play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, and the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife Rachel Silver.

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

February 21, 1977

Place of Birth:

Washington, D.C.

Education:

B.A. in Philosophy, Princeton University, 1999

Editorial Reviews

Praise for EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED:"

Not since...A Clockwork Orange has the English language been simultaneously mauled and energized with such brilliance and brio."—Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review

"Powerful...A veritable book of treasures."—Los Angeles Times Book Review

Praise for EATING ANIMALS:

"Stirring...compelling....Foer brings an invigorating moral clarity to the topic."—Entertainment Weekly

"One of the most important books I've ever read."—Ellen DeGeneres

"What makes Eating Animals so unusual is vegetarian Foer's empathy for human meat eaters, his willingness to let both factory farmers and food reform activists speak for themselves, and his talent for using humor to sweeten a sour argument."—O , The Oprah Magazine

Praise for THE MINISTRY OF SPECIAL CASES:"

Who is this Nathan Englander, so young in novelist years, but already possessed of an old masters voice?...One reads this novel in awe of Englander's talent."—New York Times Book Review

"[A] tour-de-force.... A few pages into The Ministry of Special Cases, it becomes clear how much [Englander] has to bring to the topic: pitch-black humor, a skeptical affection for his characters, and the narrative ability to trace the impact of fascism-with-a-modern-face on a cluster of lives."—The Seattle Times

From the Publisher

"[A] tour-de-force.... A few pages into The Ministry of Special Cases, it becomes clear how much [Englander] has to bring to the topic: pitch-black humor, a skeptical affection for his characters, and the narrative ability to trace the impact of fascism-with-a-modern-face on a cluster of lives."

The Seattle Times

"One of the most important books I've ever read."

Ellen DeGeneres

Praise for EATING ANIMALS:

"Stirring...compelling....Foer brings an invigorating moral clarity to the topic."

Entertainment Weekly

"Powerful...A veritable book of treasures."

Los Angeles Times Book Review

Praise for THE MINISTRY OF SPECIAL CASES:

"Who is this Nathan Englander, so young in novelist years, but already possessed of an old masters voice?...One reads this novel in awe of Englander's talent."

Francine Prose - New York Times Book Review