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The Netanyahus

by Joshua Cohen · 2021

Literary Fiction · ranked #230 in category

Winner · The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2022

In 1959-60, a historian at a small upstate New York college hosts a visiting lecturer named Benzion Netanyahu — whose family, including his teenage son Benjamin, descends on the campus in chaos. Cohen's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a satirical campus novel that is also a meditation on Jewish American identity, Zionism and a strange footnote of real history.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2021 · 2020s
Author
Joshua Cohen
Standing
Essential Read

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