The Ministry Of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
A middle-class Jewish family in Buenos Aires in 1976 faces the terror of Argentina’s military dictatorship when their teenage son is seized by security forces. The father appeals to a shadowy government office and to a compromising rabbi and other desperate allies, exposing the regime’s brutal bureaucracy, antisemitism, and the moral compromises ordinary people make to survive. Darkly comic yet harrowing, the novel blends political suspense and moral fable to probe guilt, complicity, and the limits of love under state terror.
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- 2007
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- American
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- Original Language
- English
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