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The ministry of special cases

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Kaddish Poznan chips the names off gravestones for a living, removing traces of disreputable ancestors for their more respectable kin.

His wife Lillian works in insurance, earning money when people live longer than they fear.

Set in a tumultuous Buenos Aires on the cusp of a military coup, the couple's own turbulent relationship is held together by their role as parents dedicated to a teenage son.

As Argentina's Dirty War unfolds around them, it threatens to overwhelm the infectious, mad energy of their lives.

A visit to the dreaded Ministry of Special Cases soon turns their at times hilarious misadventures into something much darker.

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Product Details
Faber & Faber
0571196926 / 9780571196920
Hardback
813.54
16/08/2007
United Kingdom
English
Contemporary classics
339 p.
22 cm
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