{"product_id":"book-avnb","title":"For the Relief of Unbearable Urges","description":"Already sold in eight countries around the world, these nine energized, irreverent stories from Nathan Englander introduce an astonishing new talent.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Englander's amazingly taut and ambitious \"The Twenty-seventh Man,\" a clerical error lands earnest, unpublished Pinchas Pelovits in prison with twenty-six writers slated for execution at Stalin's command, \u003cbr\u003eand in the grip of torture Pinchas composes a mini-masterpiece, which he recites in one glorious moment before author and audience are simultaneously annihilated. In \"The Gilgul of Park Avenue,\" a Protestant has a religious awakening in the back of a New York taxi. In the collection's hilarious title story, a Hasidic man incensed by his wife's interminable menstrual cycle gets a dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute.               \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories in \u003cb\u003eFor the Relief of Unbearable Urges\u003c\/b\u003e are powerfully inventive and often haunting, steeped in the weight of Jewish history and in the customs of Orthodox life. But it is in the largeness of their spirit-- a spirit that finds in doubt a doorway to faith, that sees in despair a chance for the heart to deepen--and in the wisdom that so prodigiously transcends the author's twenty-eight years, that these stories are truly remarkable. Nathan Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for Auschwitz and in a deft imaginative twist turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harm's way; he takes an elderly wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful. Again and again, Englander does what feels impossible: he finds, wherever he looks, a province beyond death's dominion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor the Relief of Unbearable Urges\u003c\/b\u003e is a work of stunning authority and imagination--a book that is \u003cbr\u003eas wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad, and that heralds the arrival of a profoundly gifted new \u003cbr\u003estoryteller.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49340599107888,"sku":"BDavnb","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/307679-avnb-Square.jpg?v=1734045793","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-avnb","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}