Here i am [electronic resource] /
by Safran Foer, Jonathan; Fliakos, Ari.
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SoundPublisher: [London] : Bolinda/Penguin audio, 2016Edition: Unabridged ed.ISBN: 9780141983325.Subject(s): Audiobooks | Dysfunctional families -- FictionOnline resources: Access eAudiobook online Read by Ari Fliakos.Summary: JACOB AND JULIA BLOCH HAVE A PROBLEM ? SEVERAL PROBLEMS, IN FACT. While they?ve been coaxing Jacob?s grandfather into a retirement home, bracing themselves for a family reunion and struggling to keep their eldest son from being expelled, a discovery is made that risks destroying their marriage. As domestic crises multiply in the foreground, a global disaster is looming on the horizon. The Bloch family is collapsing and so is the Middle East, where a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict - and every man, woman and child must decide where they will stand. Here I am marks an ambitious new departure for Jonathan Safran Foer, achieving extraordinary scope and emotional resonance while maintaining the trademark inventiveness and irreverence of his much-loved previous novels. Confronting the enduring question of what it means to be human, Here I Am is a great American novel for our times, a masterpiece about how we live now.
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Downloadable eAudiobook.
Fiction.
JACOB AND JULIA BLOCH HAVE A PROBLEM ? SEVERAL PROBLEMS, IN FACT. While they?ve been coaxing Jacob?s grandfather into a retirement home, bracing themselves for a family reunion and struggling to keep their eldest son from being expelled, a discovery is made that risks destroying their marriage. As domestic crises multiply in the foreground, a global disaster is looming on the horizon. The Bloch family is collapsing and so is the Middle East, where a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict - and every man, woman and child must decide where they will stand. Here I am marks an ambitious new departure for Jonathan Safran Foer, achieving extraordinary scope and emotional resonance while maintaining the trademark inventiveness and irreverence of his much-loved previous novels. Confronting the enduring question of what it means to be human, Here I Am is a great American novel for our times, a masterpiece about how we live now.
Adult.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Duration: 16:58:25.
Read by Ari Fliakos.
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