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A Heaven of Others
At age 23, before he had begun his contemporary landmark novel, Witz, Joshua Cohen composed this novel of a 10 year-old Israeli Jewish boy exploded by an equally young Palestinian suicide bomber. It is a novel of a conflicted city, Jerusalem, and of word-play that both celebrates and dismantles tradition.
#14 on The
Believer reader survey of Best Books of 2008. Now in a new edition with cover design by artist Julian Montague.
"It is poignant and profound to refract one’s religious doubt this way through a religious mirror, brave to structure an epic novella around religious terrorism in which belief interrogates itself, through its own manifestations, which is something like God seeing himself in the passing surface he has created. Cohen engages his own religion in the terms of that religion, in its own language, which he recreates using myths—like wind-up Schulzian toys—cast in Semitic-syncretic mold, bursting with contradiction." from The New Haven Review
"A breathless flight of controlled delirium, an exquisitely blasphemous tour of an afterlife where earth's dominion, in all its terror and glory, trumps the miraculous and overturns the world to come... It's a brave book that should earn its young author the reader's profound and enduring admiration." Steve Stern, author of The Angel of Forgetfulness
"Joshua Cohen has created a visionary novel that is terrifying and heartbreaking and humbling in its luminous brilliance. In my view, it firmly places the author on the same level as Kafka." Michael Disend, author of Stomping the Goyim
SEE ALSO:
Beckett and the Guy from New Jersey: A Conversation About Joshua Cohen’s A Heaven of Others by Kyle Minor and Justin Taylor, October 2009.
Review
on Pop Matters
Review
in The Reading Experience
Interview,
"The Wrong Heaven: Critic Joshua Cohen on His New Novel," The
Jewish Daily Forward, Jan. 16, 2008.
Review
in The Brooklyn Rail, February 2008.
Cohen,
"On Writing A Heaven of Others," JBooks.com.
ISBN 978-0-9842133-8-2. 5x8 inches, 152 p.
Print run: 2,000 Price: $20.00
Official release: April 1, 2011
Contact: Ted Pelton, Starcherone Books, PO Box 303, Buffalo, NY 14201. Phone:
716-515-5410. Fax: 716-515-5410. ted@starcherone.com
Distribution through Consortium Distribution.
Book tour: ongoing.
Joshua Cohen