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

'A wonderful, twisted, trangressive, heartbreaking, true, and hugely funny book.' A. L. Kennedy

About the Author
Shalom Auslander was raised in Monsey, New York. Nominated for the Koret Award for writers under thirty-five, he has published articles in Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, Tablet, and the New Yorker, and has had stories aired on NPR's This American Life. He is the author of the short-story collection Beware of God and the memoir Foreskin's Lament. He lives in New York.

Reviews
'I think it's a brilliant book, I think it's as good as Portnoy's Complaint' David Baddiel, Open Book, BBC Radio 4
'One of the best books I read last year. It's hilarious . . . I think we should all read it.' Naomi Alderman, Open Book, BBC Radio 4
One of the funniest, wrongest books of the century -- Richard Godwin * The Times *


Awards
Winner of Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize 2013 (UK).



Book Information
ISBN 9781447207665
Author Shalom Auslander
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Picador
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 244g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm * 22mm