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121373For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Short Story)https://www.gandhi.com.mx/for-the-relief-of-unbearable-urges-short-story/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1574959/4dbc8d24-bccc-4447-9c05-96d1b4c5bb9b.jpg?v=6383383904357300003939MXNPenguin Random House Audio Publishing GroupInStock/Audiolibros/<p>Already sold in eight countries around the world, these nine energized, irreverent stories from Nathan Englander introduce an astonishing new talent.</p><p>In Englanders amazingly taut and ambitious "The Twenty-seventh Man," a clerical error lands earnest, unpublished Pinchas Pelovits in prison with twenty-six writers slated for execution at Stalins command,<br />and in the grip of torture Pinchas composes a mini-masterpiece, which he recites in one glorious moment before author and audience are simultaneously annihilated. In "The Gilgul of Park Avenue," a Protestant has a religious awakening in the back of a New York taxi. In the collections hilarious title story, a Hasidic man incensed by his wifes interminable menstrual cycle gets a dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute.</p><p>The stories in <strong>For the Relief of Unbearable Urges</strong> are powerfully inventive and often haunting, steeped in the weight of Jewish history and in the customs of Orthodox life. But it is in the largeness of their spirit-- a spirit that finds in doubt a doorway to faith, that sees in despair a chance for the heart to deepen--and in the wisdom that so prodigiously transcends the authors twenty-eight years, that these stories are truly remarkable. Nathan Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for Auschwitz and in a deft imaginative twist turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harms way; he takes an elderly wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful. Again and again, Englander does what feels impossible: he finds, wherever he looks, a province beyond deaths dominion.</p><p><strong>For the Relief of Unbearable Urges</strong> is a work of stunning authority and imagination--a book that is<br />as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad, and that heralds the arrival of a profoundly gifted new<br />storyteller.</p>...121747For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Short Story)3939https://www.gandhi.com.mx/for-the-relief-of-unbearable-urges-short-story/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1574959/4dbc8d24-bccc-4447-9c05-96d1b4c5bb9b.jpg?v=638338390435730000InStockMXN99999DIAudiolibro20079780739342473_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9780739342473_<p>Already sold in eight countries around the world, these nine energized, irreverent stories from Nathan Englander introduce an astonishing new talent.</p><p>In Englander's amazingly taut and ambitious "The Twenty-seventh Man," a clerical error lands earnest, unpublished Pinchas Pelovits in prison with twenty-six writers slated for execution at Stalin's command,<br />and in the grip of torture Pinchas composes a mini-masterpiece, which he recites in one glorious moment before author and audience are simultaneously annihilated. In "The Gilgul of Park Avenue," a Protestant has a religious awakening in the back of a New York taxi. In the collection's hilarious title story, a Hasidic man incensed by his wife's interminable menstrual cycle gets a dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute.</p><p>The stories in <strong>For the Relief of Unbearable Urges</strong> are powerfully inventive and often haunting, steeped in the weight of Jewish history and in the customs of Orthodox life. But it is in the largeness of their spirit-- a spirit that finds in doubt a doorway to faith, that sees in despair a chance for the heart to deepen--and in the wisdom that so prodigiously transcends the author's twenty-eight years, that these stories are truly remarkable. Nathan Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for Auschwitz and in a deft imaginative twist turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harm's way; he takes an elderly wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful. Again and again, Englander does what feels impossible: he finds, wherever he looks, a province beyond death's dominion.</p><p><strong>For the Relief of Unbearable Urges</strong> is a work of stunning authority and imagination--a book that is<br />as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad, and that heralds the arrival of a profoundly gifted new<br />storyteller.</p>(*_*)9780739342473_<p>Already sold in eight countries around the world, these nine energized, irreverent stories from Nathan Englander introduce an astonishing new talent.</p><p>In Englanders amazingly taut and ambitious "The Twenty-seventh Man," a clerical error lands earnest, unpublished Pinchas Pelovits in prison with twenty-six writers slated for execution at Stalins command,<br />and in the grip of torture Pinchas composes a mini-masterpiece, which he recites in one glorious moment before author and audience are simultaneously annihilated. In "The Gilgul of Park Avenue," a Protestant has a religious awakening in the back of a New York taxi. In the collections hilarious title story, a Hasidic man incensed by his wifes interminable menstrual cycle gets a dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute.</p><p>The stories in <strong>For the Relief of Unbearable Urges</strong> are powerfully inventive and often haunting, steeped in the weight of Jewish history and in the customs of Orthodox life. But it is in the largeness of their spirit-- a spirit that finds in doubt a doorway to faith, that sees in despair a chance for the heart to deepen--and in the wisdom that so prodigiously transcends the authors twenty-eight years, that these stories are truly remarkable. Nathan Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for Auschwitz and in a deft imaginative twist turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harms way; he takes an elderly wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful. Again and again, Englander does what feels impossible: he finds, wherever he looks, a province beyond deaths dominion.</p><p><strong>For the Relief of Unbearable Urges</strong> is a work of stunning authority and imagination--a book that is<br />as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad, and that heralds the arrival of a profoundly gifted new<br />storyteller.</p>...9780739342473_Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Groupaudiolibro_7b6ea95b-4c1b-36ba-a5c0-d67ff5319f44_9780739342473;9780739342473_9780739342473Nathan EnglanderInglésMéxicoNoMINUTE2007-03-20T00:00:00+00:00Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group