Beware of God · Stories

Beware of God · Stories
Authors
Auslander, Shalom
Publisher
Simon Schuster
Tags
humour , religion
ISBN
9780743264570
Date
2005-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.24 MB
Lang
en
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Shalom Auslander's stories in *Beware of God* have the mysterious punch of a dream. They are wide ranging and inventive: A young Jewish man's inexplicable transformation into a very large, blond, tattooed goy ends with an argument over whether or not his father can beat his unclean son with a copy of the Talmud. A pious man having a near-death experience discovers that God is actually a chicken, and he's forced to reconsider his life -- and his diet. At God's insistence, Leo Schwartzman searches Home Depot for supplies for an ark. And a young boy mistakes Holocaust Remembrance Day as emergency preparedness training for the future.

Auslander draws upon his upbringing in an Orthodox Jewish community in New York State to craft stories that are filled with shame, sex, God, and death, but also manage to be wickedly funny and poignant.