Benjamin Resnick Next Stop recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse dystopische roman. Op 17 september 2024 verschijnt bij Avid Reader Press de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Benjamin Resnick. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave.
Benjamin Resnick Next Stop recensie, review en informatie
- “Resnick’s prose is lucid and moves at a steady clip, never dwelling anywhere too long, avoiding the kind of teeth-gnashing misery one might expect in a novel about persecution and ethnic cleansing. For all its futuristic terrors, this is really a story about a family.” (Jewish Book Council)
- “A striking debut. . . Resnick skillfully uses the raw materials of postapocalyptic fiction and speaks lucidly to his Jewish characters’ legacy of displacement. This timely tale will appeal to fans of speculative fantasies by Michael Chabon and Lavie Tidhar.” (Publishers Weekly)
Next Stop
- Auteur: Benjamin Resnick (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: dystopische roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
- Verschijnt: 17 september 2024
- Omvang: 304 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Benjamin Resnick
For readers of Leave the World Behind and Exit West, an astonishingly resonant novel that explores the precariousness of Jewish American life through one family after a black hole consumes the State of Israel and similar strange events occur in major cities around the world, ushering in a time of chaos as well as miracles.
When a black hole suddenly consumes Israel and as similar anomalies spread across the globe, a conspiracy takes hold: will the holes swallow the Jews, or will they swallow the earth?
Against a backdrop of antisemitic paranoia, restrictions on Jewish life, and spasms of violence, Ethan and Ella, Jewish citizens of a nameless American city, meet and fall in love. Ella, a photojournalist, documents the changes in daily life, particularly among the city’s Jewish residents. Some Jews, feeling inexplicably drawn to the unusual events, go underground to an abandoned subway system that seems to connect the entire world. Others leave for the south, forming militias and stockpiling weapons. But most, like Ethan, Ella, and her young son Michael, stay and try to make their way amid the hostility and small joys of the ever-changing landscape.
But then thousands of commercial planes are sucked from the sky. Air travel stops. Borders close. Refugees pour into the capital. Eventually all Jews in the city are forced to relocate to the Pale, an area sandwiched between a park and a river. There, under the watchful eye of border guards, drones, and robotic dogs, they form a fragile new society.
Suspenseful, thought-provoking, and brilliantly conceived, Next Stop is an enthralling novel that explores the fault lines between our collective, national, and individual memories and how our deepest bonds can be unexpectedly reshaped in moments of crisis.
Benjamin Resnick is the rabbi of the Pelham Jewish Center in New York. Ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, he lives in Pelham with his family. Next Stop is his first novel.