The Ministry of Special Cases
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Nathan Englander's debut novel follows a Jewish family in Buenos Aires during Argentina's Dirty War, whose son is disappeared and who seek him through the bureaucracy of the Ministry of Special Cases.
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- Natalie Portman: “It's a moving book that also has a lot of dark comedy in it... What's most interesting to me is, as one character makes clear, the truth tellers in life are so often written off as crazy.”