acob and Julia Bloch have a problem - several problems, in fact.
While they''ve been coaxing Jacob''s grandfather into a retirement home, bracing themselves for a family reunion, and struggling to keep their eldest son from being expelled, a discovery is made that risks destroying their marriage.
As domestic crises multiply in the foreground, a global disaster is looming on the horizon. The Bloch family is collapsing and so is the Middle East where a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict - and every man, woman and child must decide where they will stand.
Here I Am marks an ambitious new departure for Jonathan Safran Foer, achieving extraordinary scope and emotional resonance while maintaining the trademark inventiveness and irreverence of his much-loved previous novels. Confronting the enduring question of what it means to be human, Here I Am is a great American novel for our times, a masterpiece about how we live now.
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Jonathan Safran Foer es autor de las novelas Todo está iluminado y Tan fuerte, tan cerca. Ha sido galardonado con el Zoetrope: All-Story Fiction Prize, el New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award y fue incluido en la lista de los mejores novelistas jóvenes norteamericanos publicada por Granta. Su obra ha sido traducida a treinta y seis idiomas.