The Twentyseventh Man, Nathan Englander
The Twentyseventh Man, Nathan Englander
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The Twenty-seventh Man
A Short Story from For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

Author: Nathan Englander

Narrator: Paul Michael

Unabridged: 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/20/2007

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

 A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.” –The New York Times Book Review

About The Author

Nathan Englander was born in 1970. His first book, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, a collection of short stories, was published in May 1999 and became an international bestseller. It earned him a PEN/Faulkner Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Nathan was selected as one of '20 Writers for the 21st Century' by The New Yorker,was awarded the Bard Fiction Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic MonthlyThe New Yorker, and numerous anthologies including The Best American Short StoriesThe O. Henry Prize Anthology, and thePushcart Prize. His first novel, The Ministry of Special Cases, was published in 2007.


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma

A story in which 27 Jewish writers are rounded up to be sent to a prison in Siberia, for the crime of allegedly spreading anti-Soviet ideas, which of course never occurred. Our four characters; a man overflowing of hubris, a drunkard with a passion for writing and a kind heart, an elderly man simply......more

Goodreads review by Rara

Under Stalin's orders, twenty seven "subversive writers" were rounded up to an underground prison to face punishment for "writing and distributing propaganda against the state", a crime which, of course, they never did, and would never receive trial for. The first short story of For the Relief of Un......more

Goodreads review by James

Well worth the time spent. Very well written.......more