The Ministry of Special Cases (Hardcover)

Nathan Englander follows up his lauded collection of short stories (FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES) with a rich historical and personal novel about an Argentinean Jew named Kaddish Pozman whose son becomes one of the thousands of "desaparecidos" following the military coup of 1976 in which radicals and dissidents were rounded up into covert prisons and, frequently, executed.