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Witz (American Literature Series)
Joshua Cohen
出版Dalkey Archive Press, 2010-05-11
主題Fiction / Jewish
ISBN156478617X9781564786173
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=j-s-MceQ51oC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

One of the great comic epics of our time: the Last Jewish Novel about the Last Jew in the World.

On Christmas Eve 1999, all the Jews in the world die in a strange, millennial plague, with the exception of the firstborn males, who are soon adopted by a cabal of powerful people in the American government. By the following Passover, however, only one is still alive: Benjamin Israelien; a kindly, innocent, ignorant man-child. As he finds himself transformed into an international superstar, Jewishness becomes all the rage: matzo-ball soup is in every bowl, sidelocks are hip; and the only truly Jewish Jew left is increasingly stigmatized for not being religious. Since his very existence exposes the illegitimacy of the newly converted, Israelien becomes the object of a worldwide hunt . . .

Meanwhile, in the not-too-distant future of our own, “real” world, another last Jew—the last living Holocaust survivor—sits alone in a snowbound Manhattan, providing a final melancholy witness to his experiences in the form of the punch lines to half-remembered jokes.