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The Ministry of Special Cases
From the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges comes The Ministry of Special Cases, an unforgettable novel set in Argentina during the “Dirty War” of the 1970s and 80s.
In a world turned upside down, where the past and the future, the nature of truth itself, all take shape according to a corrupt government’s whims, one man—one spectacularly hopeless man—fights to overcome his history and his name, and, if for only once in his life, to put things right. Here again are all the marvelous qualities for which Englander’s first book was immediately beloved: his exuberant wit and invention, his cosmic sense of the absurd, his genius for balancing joyfulness and despair. Through the devastation of a single family, Englander captures, indelibly, the grief of a nation. The Ministry of Special Cases, like Englander’s stories before it, is a celebration of our humanity, in all its weakness, and—despite that—hope.
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