TAFFY BRODESSER AKNER

Is this book as good [as Fleishman]? It's better' THE NEW YORK TIMES'The best book I've read this year' HARLAN COBEN'Very, very good' ELIZABETH DAY'The book of the summer, nay, the year' DAVID SEDARIS'This book is DYNAMITE. Inhaled it in two sittings' CAITLIN MORAN'Shocking, tender, profound and delicious' EMILY MAITLIS'Lavishly comic' THE TIMES'A lip-smacking tale' GUARDIAN'Elegant and devastating' FINANCIAL TIMESFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes a darkly exhilarating novel about an American family and its inheritance - the safety and wealth that they fought for, and the precarity of their survival that is their legacy.In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of the nicest part of Long Island. He is brutalised, held for ransom and then returned to his family. Miraculously, Carl, his wife and his three kids are left to move on with their lives, and resume their prized places in the ongoing saga of the American dream.But nearly forty years later, when Carl's mother dies, the trauma that has been bubbling beneath the Fletchers' lives all this time surfaces at last. It becomes apparent that Carl has been quietly pursuing closure to the kidnapping for all these years, and his wife and children must face that the money that they believed bought them safety was actually never capable of doing any such thing.Long Island Compromise spans generations, winding through decades of history all the way through to the wild present, dealing along the way with all the mainstays of American Jewish life and the timeless questions about wealth, trauma, and the American soul.

• Best seller del New York Times.• Finalista del National Book Award.• Uno de los 10 mejores libros del 2019 según Entertainment Weekly y La Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York.Toby Fleishman creyó sabe

From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes Long Island Compromise, a darkly exhilarating novel about an American family and its inheritance - the safety and wealth that they fought for, and the precarity of their survival that is their legacy.

La primera generación construye la casa.La segunda vive en ella.Y la tercera la quema hasta los cimientos.En 1980, a Carl Fletcher, un adinerado hombre de negocios, lo secuestran en la entrada de su casa y lo retienen para pedir un rescate. Menos de una semana despues, lo devuelven a su mujer e hijos, y la familia sigue con su vida, en la saga del sueño americano, reconfortados por la idea de que, aunque el dinero que tienen es lo que los ha puesto en peligro, tambien es lo que los mantiene a salvo.Sin embargo, casi cuarenta años despues, esta claro que tal vez nadie ha superado lo que paso. Carl se ha pasado todos esos años intentando ponerle punto final a su secuestro en secreto, mientras que su mujer, Ruth, ha desperdiciado su potencial protegiendo la salud emocional de su marido. Y a sus tres hijos no les va mucho mejor: el miedo cronico de Nathan no le deja escalar puestos en su bufete; Beamer, guionista de Hollywood, consume de todo (drogas, comida, sexo) para apaciguar su constante terror, y Jenny se ha pasado la vida entera tan empeñada en demostrar que no es un producto de la patologia de su familia que ha acabado definiendola. Cuando se acercan al peligroso precipicio de otro tipo de supervivencia, se enteran de que la fortuna familiar casi se ha terminado, por lo que tienen que enfrentarse a ciertas preguntas desesperadas sobre que papel ha interpretado su riqueza en los exitos y fracasos de su vida. El compromiso de Long Island abarca toda la historia de una familia, a lo largo de decadas y de generaciones, hasta llegar al descarado presente, mientras se enfrentan a los elementos clasicos de la vida judia en Estados Unidos: la tradicion, la busqueda del exito, el terror de la historia, el miedo al futuro, los cuentos de viejas, los males de ojo, ambiciones, logros, aburrimiento, dibbuks, herencias, estafas piramidales, capitalistas de ultraderecha, betabloqueantes, videntes y el cariño y las experiencias compartidas que, si bien no se dicen en voz alta, unen a una familia.Otra historia de neurosis modernas, contada con un encanto grandilocuente El brio de Brodesser-Akner en todo lo que abarca es increible; recuerda a Philip Roth por como examina la identidad judia en Estados Unidos, las promesas del pais, la emocion de reinventarse a uno mismo, la carcel del privilegio. No se me ocurre ningun otro autor actual que pueda crear una historia llena de un patetismo agudo y mordaz y que al mismo tiempo pueda complacer a todos los lectores. VogueIgual que hizo en Fleishman esta en apuros, Brodesser-Akner vuelve a demostrar que tiene un don para captar lo mas oscuro e imperdonable que hacen y dicen las personas a los que se supone que mas deben querer. VultureSe salta los problemas de los que adolecen las segundas novelas con otro retrato incisivo y astuto sobre la vida judia en Nueva York La novela mas reciente de Brodesser-Akner combina la astucia de la comedia de Sarah Silverman, la verosimilitud polimata de las novelas de Tom Wolfe y el alma judia de las historias de Sholem Aleichem. Es un festin de comedia. Publishers Weekly (reseña destacada)

En 1980, un adinerado hombre de negocios llamado Carl Fletcher es secuestrado, tratado con brutalidad y retenido para pedir un rescate. Menos de una semana después, lo liberan y regresa con su mujer

« Vous voulez connaître une histoire avec une fin horrible ? Le mercredi 12 mars 1980, Carl Fletcher, l’un des hommes les plus riches de la banlieue de Long Island, fut kidnappé dans l’allée de son

Sharp and wicked, insightful and funny, and then suddenly so touching DAVID NICHOLLSIt is a Great Novel . . . It has depth, wit, nuance and life. Heartbreaking and funnyNIGELLA LAWSONThis is the novel of the summer . . . There is no one that this book isnt for. I cant believe its a first novel. Pure brilliance INDIA KNIGHT, THE SUNDAY TIMESCould be one of the books of my entire lifetime. Ive never felt so seen GRACE DENT, GUARDIANThis book is a work of utter perfection ELIZABETH GILBERTTHE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, JUNE 2019Finally free from his nightmare marriage, Toby Fleishman is ready for a life of online dating and weekend-only parental duties. But as he optimistically looks to a future that is wildly different from the one he imagined, his life turns upside-down as his ex-wife, Rachel, suddenly disappears.While Toby tries to find out what happened - juggling work, kids and his new, app-assisted sexual popularity - his tidy narrative of a spurned husband is his sole consolation. But if he ever wants to really understand where Rachel went and what really happened to his marriage, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen it all that clearly in the first place . . .WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE:So sharpGUARDIANThe most astonishingly brilliant Trojan horse of a novelDOLLY ALDERTONWonderful. Utterly blistering . . . A wildly entertaining, moving storyMARIAN KEYESBrimming with wisdom and utterly of this moment . . . Taffy Brodesser-Akners debut is that rare and delicious treat: a page turner with heftMARIA SEMPLE LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALSHORTLISTED FOR THE FICTION: DEBUT BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDSRUNNER-UP FOR THE MCKITTERICK PRIZE 2020FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE/JOHN LEONARD AWARD FOR BEST FIRST BOOK

Is this book as good [as Fleishman]? Its betterTHE NEW YORK TIMESThe best book Ive read this year HARLAN COBENVery, very good ELIZABETH DAYThe book of the summer, nay, the year DAVID SEDARISThis book is DYNAMITE. Inhaled it in two sittings CAITLIN MORANShocking, tender, profound and delicious EMILY MAITLISLavishly comicTHE TIMESA lip-smacking taleGUARDIANElegant and devastatingFINANCIAL TIMESFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes a darkly exhilarating novel about an American family and its inheritance - the safety and wealth that they fought for, and the precarity of their survival that is their legacy.In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalised and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife, kids and exquisite Long Island home less than a week later, and the family moves on with their gilded lives. But now, nearly forty years later, it seems that nobody ever got over anything, after all. With a death in the family, the hidden struggles of the Fletchers come bubbling to the surface. Carl has spent years secretly seeking closure to the mystery of his kidnapping, while his wife, Ruth, has given up everything to protect her husbands fragile emotional health and keep the business thriving. Their three grown children arent doing much better: Nathans chronic existential fear wont allow him to advance at his law fi rm; Beamer, a failing Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything - substances, food, women - at any cost; and Jenny, with her brilliant mind, is desperate to prove she is not anything like her family by working in trade unions (whilst still receiving quarterly payouts from the family business). Money was what put the Fletchers in danger, but it has also protected them - until now...Long Island Compromise spans generations, winding through decades of history all the way through to the wild present, dealing along the way with all the mainstays of American Jewish life and the timeless questions about wealth, trauma, and the American soul.MORE PRAISE FOR LONG ISLAND COMPROMISE:The status book youll want to be seen withSTYLIST[A] scabrous satireTHE NEW YORKERThis authors talents are boundlessLA TIMESSubstantive and profound CATHY RENTZENBRINKGreatness so often comes at the expense of what is enjoyable. Long Island Compromise is both, and then someIPAPERExuberant and absorbingATLANTICPRAISE FOR FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE:There is no one that this book isnt for . . . Pure brilliance INDIA KNIGHT, THE SUNDAY TIMESCould be one of the books of my entire lifetime. Ive never felt so seen GRACE DENT, GUARDIANSharp and wicked, insightful and funny, and then suddenly so touching DAVID NICHOLLSA work of utter perfection ELIZABETH GILBERT[FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE was a Sunday Times bestseller (UK) in August 2019 and a New York Times bestseller (USA) in June 2019]

« Dans le premier roman de Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman a des ennuis, Updike, Roth et Franzen ne sont pas juste des références, ils sont remis au goût du jour ».The New YorkerToby et Rachel, c

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in TroubleNew York Times Book Review Editors Choice New York Magazines Beach Read Book Club Pick Belletrist Book Club PickA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, Town & Country, New York Post, Harpers Bazaar, Elle, Parade, Kirkus ReviewsJoins the pantheon of great American novels.Los Angeles TimesExuberant and absorbing . . . a big old-fashioned social novel.The AtlanticWere we gangsters? No. But did we know how to start a fire?In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety.But now, nearly forty years later, its clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has spent the ensuing years secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husbands emotional health. Their three grown children arent doing much better: Nathans chronic fear wont allow him to advance at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anythingsubstance, foodstuff, womenin order to numb his own perpetual terror; and Jenny has spent her life so bent on proving that shes not a product of her familys pathology that she has come to define it. As they hover at the delicate precipice of a different kind of survival, they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, and they must face desperate questions about how much their wealth has played a part in both their lives successes and failures.Long Island Compromise spans the entirety of one familys history, winding through decades and generations, all the way to the outrageous present, and confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives tales, evil eyes, ambition, achievement, boredom, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta-blockers, psychics, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST A masterpiece (NPR) about marriage, divorce, and the bewildering dynamics of ambitionNow an Emmy Awardnominated FX limited series on Hulu, starring Claire Danes, Jesse Eisenberg, Lizzy Caplan, and Adam BrodyONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Entertainment Weekly, The New York Public LibraryONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, The Washington Post, USA Today Vanity Fair, Vogue, NPR, Chicago Tribune, GQ, Vox, Refinery29, Elle, The Guardian, Real Simple, Financial Times, Parade, Good Housekeeping, New Statesman, Marie Claire, Town & Country, Evening Standard, Thrillist, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, BookRiot, Shelf AwarenessToby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost fifteen years separated: weekends and every other holiday with the kids, some residual bitterness, the occasional moment of tension in their co-parenting negotiations. He could not have predicted that one day, in the middle of his summer of sexual emancipation, Rachel would just drop their two children off at his place and simply not return. He had been working so hard to find equilibrium in his single life. The winds of his optimism, long dormant, had finally begun to pick up. Now this.As Toby tries to figure out where Rachel went, all while juggling his patients at the hospital, his never-ending parental duties, and his new app-assisted sexual popularity, his tidy narrative of the spurned husband with the too-ambitious wife is his sole consolation. But if Toby ever wants to truly understand what happened to Rachel and what happened to his marriage, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen things all that clearly in the first place.A searing, utterly unvarnished debut, Fleishman Is in Trouble is an insightful, unsettling, often hilarious exploration of a culture trying to navigate the fault lines of an institution that has proven to be worthy of our great wariness and our great hope.Almas Best Jewish Novel of the Year Finalist for the National Book Critics Circles John Leonard Prize for Best First Book

From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes Long Island Compromise, a darkly exhilarating novel about an American family and its inheritance - the safety and wealth that they fought for, and the precarity of their survival that is their legacy.In 1982, wealthy businessman Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of the nicest part of Long Island. He is brutalised, held for ransom and then returned to his family. Carl, his wife and his three kids all try to move on with their lives, and resume their prized places in the ongoing saga of the American dream.But nearly forty years later, when Carl's mother dies, the trauma that has been bubbling beneath the Fletchers' lives all this time surfaces at last. Finally, Carl allows himself to acknowledge what happened to him all those years ago, and face the question that's been idling in his mind for a quarter of a century: where did the ransom go? And if he were ever to find the money, would it finally give him and his family the closure they've been yearning for?

Finally free from his nightmare marriage, Toby Fleishman is ready for a life of online dating and weekend-only parental duties. But as he optimistically looks to a future that is wildly different from the one he imagined, his life turns upside-down as his ex-wife, Rachel, suddenly disappears.While Toby tries to find out what happened - juggling work, kids and his new, app-assisted sexual popularity - his tidy narrative of a spurned husband is his sole consolation. But if he ever wants to really understand where Rachel went and what really happened to his marriage, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen it all that clearly in the first place . . .

Toby Fleishman creyo saber que podia esperar cuando el y su mujer, con quien ha estado casado durante casi quince anos, se separan: fines de semana y vacaciones alternadas con los ninos, alguna amargura residual, algun momento de tension esporadico para negociar la crianza compartida de sus hijos. Pero no podia predecir que un dia, en el medio de su emancipacion sexual recien adquirida, Rachel dejaria a sus dos hijos en su casa y no volveria mas. Toby se habia esforzado tanto por encontrar un equilibrio en su vida de soltero. Los vientos de su optimismo, largamente inactivos, recien se habian puesto en marcha. Y ahora esto. Mientras Toby intenta averiguar donde fue Rachel, a la vez que hace malabarismos con sus pacientes del hospital, sus tareas parentales que no se acaban nunca y su recientemente adquirida popularidad sexual en las apps, termina siendo la prolija narrativa del marido rechazado y la mujer excesivamente ambiciosa. Pero si Toby quiere comprender de veras lo que le sucedio a Rachel y a su matrimonio, tendra que aceptar que quiza no ha sido totalmente objetivo en su analisis de los hechos. Un debut mordaz y sin tapujos, Fleishman esta en apuros es una exploracion perspicaz, inquietante y a menudo hilarante de una cultura que intenta gestionar las profundas lineas divisorias de una institucion que ha demostrado ser digna de profundos recelos y profundas esperanzas.