An Evening with Arnon Grunberg April 24, 2008

Habitus: A Diaspora Journal (www.habitusmag.com) hosts a reading and conversation with celebrated Dutch novelist and journalist Arnon Grunberg. His controversial new novel, The Jewish Messiah, satirizes everything from Nazism to Zionism––above all, the book is a caustic study of human suffering, memory, and salvation. Grunberg will read from the novel and discuss his work with Habitus editor Joshua Ellison.

“Like Philip Roth, Grunberg is deeply interested in anti-Semitism and the emotional and rhetorical mechanisms of political power; like Salman Rushdie or William Burroughs, he deploys strategic blasphemy with brilliant comedic timing.” -Booklist

“The Jewish Messiah...is exhilarating, bewildering, and throat-clutchingly funny.” -Ruth Franklin

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