Category: Contemporary, Literature, Novel
Language: EnglishKeywords: Orthodox Judaism
Written by Nathan Englander
Read by Rob Shapiro
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 80 Kbps
Unabridged
Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. When his father dies, itâs his responsibility to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for 11 months. To the horror and dismay of his sister, Larry refuses - imperiling the fate of his fatherâs soul. To appease her, Larry hatches an ingenious if cynical plan, hiring a stranger through a website called kaddish.com to recite the prayer and shepherd his fatherâs soul safely to rest.
Sharp, irreverent, hilarious, and wholly irresistible, Englanderâs tale of a son who makes a diabolical compromise ingeniously captures the tensions between tradition and modernity - a book to be devoured in a single sitting whose pleasures and provocations will be savored long after.
March 26 2019
5 hrs and 33 mins
Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. When his father dies, itâs his responsibility to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for 11 months. To the horror and dismay of his sister, Larry refuses - imperiling the fate of his fatherâs soul. To appease her, Larry hatches an ingenious if cynical plan, hiring a stranger through a website called kaddish.com to recite the prayer and shepherd his fatherâs soul safely to rest.
Sharp, irreverent, hilarious, and wholly irresistible, Englanderâs tale of a son who makes a diabolical compromise ingeniously captures the tensions between tradition and modernity - a book to be devoured in a single sitting whose pleasures and provocations will be savored long after.
March 26 2019
5 hrs and 33 mins