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Here I Am

Von: Jonathan Safran Foer
Gesprochen von: Ari Fliakos
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer, read by Ari Fliakos.


THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the bestselling author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather - a rich and moving novel about modern family lives and the ties that bind


'Towering and glorious: a tale of social, familial and marital breakdown and the End of the World. The funniest literary novel I have ever read' The Times

'A rich, beautifully written, ambitious and grandly moving novel, which looks both at the world at large and at the deepest concerns of individual lives' Evening Standard

'Lays bare the interior of a marriage with such intelligence and deep feeling and pitiless clarity, it's impossible to read it and not re-examine your own family' Time

'Astonishing. So sad and so funny and so wry' Scotland on Sunday

Jacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested . . .

By Jacob's grandfather, who won't go quietly into a retirement home.
By the family reunion, that everyone is dreading.
By their son's heroic attempts to get expelled.
And by the sexting affair that will rock their marriage.

A typical modern American family, the Blochs cling together even as they are torn apart. Which is when catastrophe decides to strike . . .

Confronting the enduring question of what it means to be human with inventiveness, playfulness and compassion, Here I Am is a great American family novel for our times, an unmissable read for fans of Jonathan Franzen and Michael Chabon, a masterpiece about how we live now.

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Publisher's description. The New York Times bestselling new novel from the author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Wildly exhilarating and profoundly moving, this is the story of a man in crisis, a family imploding, a planet on the brink of disaster. Here I Am is a great American novel for our times, a masterpiece about how we live now.
Towering and glorious: a tale of social, familial and marital breakdown . . . and the End of the World. The funniest literary novel I have ever read.
An ambitious platter of intellection and emotion. Its observations are crisp; its intimations of doom resonate; its jokes are funny. Foer's best and most caustic novel, filled with so much pain and regret that your heart sometimes struggles to hold it all. Has more teeming life in it than several hundred well-meaning and well-reviewed books of midlist fiction put together.
A brilliantly acrobatic imagination
Foer writes like a dream. . . big-hearted, courageous and jaw-droppingly clever (Deborah Moggach)
Provocative . . . very, very funny. Dialogue pings, as animated and inventive as an Aaron Sorkin script.
Lays bare the interior of a marriage with such intelligence and deep feeling and pitiless clarity, it's impossible to read it and not re-examine your own family.
Terrific, truthful, extremely funny and heartbreaking.
A rich, beautifully written, ambitious and grandly moving novel, which looks both at the world at large and at the deepest concerns of individual lives.
Unarguably Foer's most substantial and impressive work yet.
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It's been a while since I have been so spellbound by a book as I was with Here I Am. It's a dense novel spanning a wide set of themes, from love, marriage, and family to teenage alienation to being Jewish in today's USA to the political situation in the Middle East. This may sound overwhelming, but the writing is well paced and captivating, and for all its difficult subject matter, it's often simply hilariously funny.

Of course, at this point I would love just about anything read by Ari Fliakos, who may be the greatest narrator ever.

Fantastic narrator

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Well written, amusing, and a good setting for a brilliant plot. But after 5 or 6 hours there is no sign of a plot. I saw no reason tot go on.

Plot wanted

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Sorry, J.S. Foer, I couldn't make it all the way to the end. This story is endless and lost in excessive descriptions of unnecessary details. After forcing myself to listen on, I finally gave up shortly after the middle. My apologies if I'm unjust because the second half is unexpectedly marvelous.

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