Crossing the Hudson

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$14.95  $13.90
Publisher
Other Press (NY)
Publish Date
Pages
232
Dimensions
5.54 X 8.52 X 0.69 inches | 0.58 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781590512753
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About the Author
Peter Stephan Jungk

Peter Stephan Jungk was born in Los Angeles, raised in several European cities, and now lives in Paris. A former screenwriting fellow of the American Film Institute, he is the author of eight books, including the acclaimed biography Franz Werfel: A Life from Prague to Hollywood (1990) and the novels Tigor (Handsel Books, 2004), a finalist for the British Foreign Book Award, and The Perfect American (Handsel Books, 2004), a fictional biography of Walt Disney's last months, which had its premiere as an opera by Philip Glass at Madrid's Teatro Real in January 2013.

David Dollenmayer
David Dollenmayer is Professor of German at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the author of The Berlin Novels of Alred Doblin. He is the recipient of the 2008 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize. He lives in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
Also by this translator: The Road to Rescue, The King of Corsica, House of Childhood
Reviews
ForeWord Magazine

"The details in Crossing the Hudson [give] this novel about the troubled generations of a post-War Jewish family a verisimilitude that draws readers in...Jungk's telling of the story is irresistible."

The Jewish Week

"[The characters] are suspended between Europe and America, a Jewish family's past and present, in this novel that features a Kafka-like event on the Tappan Zee Bridge."

The National Jewish Post and Opinion

"Brilliantly blending reality and fantasy, Peter Stephan Jungk has written an intriguing novel...set forth with great wit and skill."

Kirkus Reviews

"A stirring meditation on family, faith and intellect... Jungk's beautiful, uncanny work breaks new ground in stories about fathers and sons."

Publishers Weekly

"Pleasantly bizarre... [a]n unusual and inventive work...refreshingly strange..."

Times Literary Supplement

"Modern Jewish fiction has generally preferred to depict the Oedipal struggle. A strange, durable love - not Roth's sublimated hatred, not Kafka's fear - reigns in Crossing the Hudson...[a] journey taken far too infrequently by Jungk's literary predecessors."

The Star Tribune

"Jungk's beautiful, surpassingly strange novel deals with emotions and faith...a treatment of father-son relationships that's both deeply intimate and deeply intellectual."


Salonica World Lit

"[A] great work in translation."