![]() ![]() ![]() A previous novel by Foer that had been acquired by the Penguin imprint three years ago, Escape From Children’s Hospital, has now been “moved off the schedule”, said Hamish Hamilton. Here I Am will be published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton next September. It’s got a kind of toughness it’s dirty, it’s kind of funny, like Portnoy’s Complaint, it exposes American Jewish life.” “It’s got this high-wire inventiveness and intensity of imagination in it, and the sheer energy that we associate with Jonathan’s writing, but it’s a big step forward for him. “You wouldn’t mistake any sentence of it for any other writer,” acquiring editor Eric Chinski told the New York Times. ![]() The novel sees relatives from Israel visiting the troubled family in Washington for the bar mitzvah of one of the sons, while in the wider world, the Middle East has been devastated by an earthquake and Israel is being invaded. He said to him, ‘Abraham!’ And he said, ‘Here I am.’ He said, ‘Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.’ ![]()
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