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Moving Kings A Novel
Author: Joshua Cohen

A propulsive, incendiary novel about faith, race, class, and what it means to have a home, from Joshua Cohen, ?a major American writer? (The New York Times) — One of the boldest voices of his generation, Joshua Cohen returns with Moving Kings, a powerful and provocative novel that interweaves, in profoundly intimate terms, the housing crisis in A... more »merica?s poor black and Hispanic neighborhoods with the world's oldest conflict, in the Middle East.

The year is 2015, and twenty-one-year-olds Yoav and Uri, veterans of the last Gaza War, have just completed their compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces. In keeping with national tradition, they take a year off for rest, recovery, and travel. They come to New York City and begin working for Yoav?s distant cousin David King?a proud American patriot, Republican, and Jew, and the recently divorced proprietor of King?s Moving Inc., a heavyweight in the tri-state area?s moving and storage industries. Yoav and Uri now must struggle to become reacquainted with civilian life, but it?s not easy to move beyond their traumatic pasts when their days are spent kicking down doors as eviction-movers in the ungentrified corners of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, throwing out delinquent tenants and seizing their possessions. And what starts off as a profitable if eerily familiar job?an ?Occupation??quickly turns violent when they encounter one homeowner seeking revenge.

Advance praise for Moving Kings

?Joshua Cohen?s Moving Kings is a lit fuse, a force let loose, a creeping flame heading for demolition, and Cohen himself is a fierce polyknower in command of the moving parts of the human predicament. A master of argot and wit, he writes the language of men in a staccato yet keening idiom of his own invention. And though it is set in a grungy New York, call this the first Israeli combat novel ever dared by an American writer.??Cynthia Ozick

?Joshua Cohen is a blacksmith who heats, hammers, and molds the language to sharpest, most precise points?not for the sake of craft, but to tell a troubled story about troubled life in the twenty-first century. This is a dazzling and poignant book.??Rachel Kushner

Praise for Joshua Cohen and Book of Numbers

?A startlingly talented novelist.??The Wall Street Journal

?Intelligent, lyrical, prosaic, theoretical, pragmatic, funny, serious . . . [Cohen?s] best prose does everything at once.??James Wood, The New Yorker

?Cohen?s literary gifts?among them, his quick, tough-minded intelligence, his humor, his nervy refusal to be ingratiating . . . suggest that something is possible, that something still might be done to safeguard whatever it is that makes us human.??Francine Prose

?Clever, poetic, fast-moving, deeply playful, filled with jokes, savvy about machines, wise about people, dazzling and engrossing.??Colm Tóibín

?Joshua Cohen is one of the most intelligent, witty, and moving writers we have.??Rivka Galchen

?Joshua Cohen is the Great American Novelist. . . . Cohen can write with tireless virtuosity about absolutely everything.??Adam Kirsch, Tablet

ISBN-13: 9780399590184
ISBN-10: 0399590188
Publication Date: 7/11/2017
Pages: 256
Rating:

Currently 3/5 Stars.

3 stars, based on 1 rating

Publisher: Random House
Book Type: Hardcover
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Genres:

Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States
Literature & Fiction >> General >> Literary
Literature & Fiction >> Genre Fiction >> Political
Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> Jewish

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