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Books : Fiction : Authors, A-Z : E : Englander, Nathan
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Nathan Englander is only 29, but his first collection of short stories has already been compared to the work of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. His characters are Jewish Americans--Hasidic to boot--and his subject-matter is the agony of family life, love lost and found and that favourite Jewish stand-by: guilt. Englander's touch, though, is light and relentlessly comic. His characters' fast-talking, self-deprecating dialogue wouldn't seem out of place in the TV series Seinfeld (when the newly converted Charles and his wife serve up a kosher dinner they promise "eighty dollars' worth of the blandest food you've ever had"; or then there's Mendel who wakes up thinking he's dead, says a prayer for himself, then worries "that the first thing he had done upon being dead was sin"). So deeply does Englander get into Yiddish culture that a glossary of terms would be useful to the goyshe reader, but it does enhance the atmosphere wherein a troubled people struggle with religious and cultural strictures that, at times, threaten to swamp their individuality. This is a deeply felt book, and Englander is a brilliant, subtle writer who challenges the neuroses of these chosen few with flair and the sympathy of a knowledgeable insider. --Lilian Pizzichini
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