Hope: A Tragedy Av Shalom Auslander

<p>Possibly the funniest novel of the decade'' <i>Sunday Times</i>, Books of the Decade 2010-2019<br><br> Solomon Kugel has had enough of the past and its burdens. So, in the hope of starting afresh, he moved his family to a small rural town where nothing of import has ever happened.<br><br> Sadly, Kugel’s life isn’t that simple. His family soon find themselves threatened by a local arsonist and his ailing mother won''t stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she didn’t actually suffer through. And when, one night, Kugel discovers a living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of history hiding in his attic, bad very quickly becomes worse.<br><br>‘The humour, at times can leave you gasping . . . comic brilliance’ <i>Sunday Times </i><br><br> ‘Singularly inventive and superbly shocking . . . nothing short of genius’ <i>Scotland on Sunday</i><br><br> ‘He will make you laugh until your heart breaks’ <i>New York Times Book Review </i></p>