Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 27/09/2012,
Pagination: 352 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Picador,
Published By: PAN MACMILLAN ,
Book Classification: Fiction & related items,
Dimensions: 171 x 197 x 22
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781447207665
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