Moving Kings: A Novel

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Moving Kings: A Novel

A propulsive, incendiary novel about faith, race, class, and what it means to have a home, from Joshua Cohen, â€œa major American writerâ€ (The New York Times)

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND BOOKFORUM

One of the boldest voices of his generation, Joshua Cohen returns with Moving Kings, a powerful and provocativeÂ novel that interweaves, in profoundly intimate terms, the housing crisis in Americaâ€™s poor black and Hispanic neighborhoods with the world's oldest conflict, in the Middle East.

The year is 2015, and twenty-one-year-olds Yoav and Uri, veterans of the last Gaza War, have just completed their compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces. In keeping with national tradition, they take a year off for rest, recovery, and travel. They come to New York City and begin working for Yoavâ€™s distant cousin David Kingâ€”a proud American patriot, Republican, and Jew, and the recently divorced proprietor of Kingâ€™s Moving Inc., a heavyweight in the tri-state areaâ€™s moving and storage industries. Yoav and Uri now must struggle to become reacquainted with civilian life, but itâ€™s not easy to move beyond their traumatic pasts when their days are spent kicking down doors as eviction-movers in the ungentrified corners of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, throwing out delinquent tenants and seizing their possessions. And what starts off as a profitable if eerily familiar jobâ€”an â€œOccupationâ€â€”quickly turns violent when they encounter one homeowner seeking revenge.

Praise for Moving Kings

â€œA Jewish Sopranos . . . burly with particularities and vibrant with voice . . . utterly engrossing, full of passionate sympathy . . . Cohen is an extraordinary prose stylist, surely one of the most prodigious in American fiction today. . . . His sentences are all-season journeyers, able to do everything everywhere at once.â€â€”James Wood, The New Yorker

â€œBrilliant. . . . It feels master-planned to slowly unsettle your convictions, as the best novels do. . . . Cohen has a brain-on-fire intellect and a Balzac-grade enthusiasm for understanding varieties of experience.â€â€”Los Angeles Times

â€œA swift-moving highbrow comic adventure.â€â€”Vulture

â€œAn astute and often penetrating look at a divided world, lightened with sympathy for all its flawed protagonists.â€â€”The Guardian

Country	USA
Author	Joshua Cohen
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780399590191
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Random House
Manufacturer	Random House
NumberOfPages	257
PublicationDate	2017-07-11
Publisher	Random House
ReleaseDate	2017-07-11
Studio	Random House

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