New York Times Book Review: 100 Notable Books of 2021
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Sign up todayThe Netanyahus
An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
Length
8 hours 31 minutes
Language
English
Narrators
Joshua Cohen, David Duchovny & Ethan Herschenfeld
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“The Netanyahus is a clever, fabulous book, and the audio is one of the best ever - enhancing everything about the written words! Mostly read by the author, everything with the addition of the two actors at perfect spots, there is sharp intellect and humor, gravitas and klezmer! Fully recommended as a book to listen to, before or after you have read it. It was my favorite read of last year, hands down. ”
— Kira • Merritt Bookstore
2022 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction and named one of the notable books of 2021 by The New York Times
Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959–1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with nonfiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers. The New York Times described it as “Absorbing,
delightful, hilarious, breathtaking and the best and most relevant novel I’ve read in what feels like forever.”
Read by the author with David Duchovny and Ethan Herschenfeld lending their vocal talents to the audiobook.
Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. His books include the novels Moving Kings, Book of Numbers, Witz, A Heaven of Others, and Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto; the short-fiction collection Four New Messages, and the nonfiction collection Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction. Cohen was awarded Israel’s 2013 Matanel Prize for Jewish Writers, and in 2017 was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. He lives in New York City.
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