NATHAN ENGLANDER
Monday, May 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Plestcheeff Auditorium, Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Avenue

Co-presented with NEXTBOOK. With our friends at NextBook, we are delighted to be presenting this much-anticipated visit by Nathan Englander. Eight years after his extraordinary debut collection of stories, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Vintage) appeared to high praise, he now makes the rounds with his compelling first novel, The Ministry of Special Cases (Knopf). "The fate of Argentina's Jews during the 1976-83 'Dirty War' is depicted with blistering emotional intensity in this startling first novel...Englander's story collection promised a brilliant future, and that promise is fulfilled here beyond all expectations." - Kirkus Reviews. "...Englander's novel takes on an epic quality in which Jewish parents descend into the underworld and journey through circles of hell. Gogol, I.B. Singer, and Orwell all come to mind, but Englander's book is unique in its layering of Jewish tradition and totalitarian obliteration...Englander writes with increasing power and authority in the second half of his book; he probes deeper and deeper, looking at what absence means, reading the shadow letters on history's curtain." - Allegra Goodman, Publishers Weekly. Tickets are $5 and available in advance via Nextbook at http://www.nextbook.org. Tonight's program is in the auditorium of the newly expanded and re-opened downtown Seattle Art Museum, located at 100 University Street.

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