Moving Kings: A Novel

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)

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€œA svelte comic triumph that concentrates [Cohenâ€™s] genius . . . a fantastically agile style . . . Cohen explores themes of power and Jewish identity with the same insight that has justly attracted praise from some of the countryâ€™s most sophisticated writers.â€â€”The Washington Post
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2017-07-11
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780399590184

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2017-07-11
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780399590184

Moving Kings: A Novel

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