The Jewish Son

A breathtaking short novel about the complicated feelings of hate and pity in familial love by an...
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Author: Daniel Guebel
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Jewish Son by Guebel, Daniel

The Jewish Son

€19,95

The Jewish Son

€19,95
Author: Daniel Guebel
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A breathtaking short novel about the complicated feelings of hate and pity in familial love by an acknowledged Latin American master.

A brilliant and dark tour de force, Jewish Son presents the delicate archeology of the stubbornness of a boy who demands his parents' attention. It is a brutal confession of the lies necessary to win a space of approval in a troubled family, a treatise on the excesses of love and the paradoxical lack of affection that is never enough, an accomplished narration of childhood from the point of view of the adult gaze, and a rewriting of Kafka's Letter to His Father.

As his father's imminent death becomes an ever more concrete reality with surgeries, caregivers, sedatives and his mother grows obsessed with visits to the rabbi and amasses saint cards and Buddhist prayers, the narrator evokes the remnants of the rejection that pervaded his childhood.

Without yielding to the idealization of youth or to the delight in pain before physical decay and death, Guebel dissects, beautifully although with discomfort, his very early conversion to the dream of literature as an act of reparation.

Author: Daniel Guebel
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 06/27/2023
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781644212899


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/27/2023
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2023

About the Author
One of Argentina's and Latin America's finest writers, DANIEL GUEBEL is the author of some 17 prior novels, four collections of short stories, and four plays. His novel The Absolute (Seven Stories, 2022) was named the best work of fiction of 2016 by La Nación and received the 2017 Literary Prize from the Argentine Academy of Literature.

JESSICA SEQUERIA has translated works by Adolfo Couve, Teresa Wilms Montt, Sara Gallardo, Liliana Colanzi, Hilda Mundy, Jean de la Hire, and Maurice Level, among many others.

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