{"product_id":"the-jewish-son-9781644212899","title":"The Jewish Son","description":"\u003cb\u003eA breathtaking short novel about the complicated feelings of hate and pity in familial love by an acknowledged Latin American master.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA brilliant and dark tour de force, \u003ci\u003eJewish Son \u003c\/i\u003epresents the delicate archeology of the stubbornness of a boy who demands his parents' attention. It is a brutal confession of the lies necessary to win a space of approval in a troubled family, a treatise on the excesses of love and the paradoxical lack of affection that is never enough, an accomplished narration of childhood from the point of view of the adult gaze, and a rewriting of Kafka's \u003ci\u003eLetter to His Father\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs his father's imminent death becomes an ever more concrete reality with surgeries, caregivers, sedatives and his mother grows obsessed with visits to the rabbi and amasses saint cards and Buddhist prayers, the narrator evokes the remnants of the rejection that pervaded his childhood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithout yielding to the idealization of youth or to the delight in pain before physical decay and death, Guebel dissects, beautifully although with discomfort, his very early conversion to the dream of literature as an act of reparation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seven Stories Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644212899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Daniel Guebel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42769770807477,"sku":"9781644212899","price":11.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1d0a49ce-6e95-4857-8924-0938618187fa.jpg?v=1678837373","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-jewish-son-9781644212899","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}