Dead Herzls
9 February 2027 · United States
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Cohen follows The Netanyahus with another novel about the space between public history and private lives. The focus on Herzl’s descendants makes the family tragedy, rather than a biography of the political figure, the central reading proposition.
About the book
Joshua Cohen turns from Theodor Herzl’s public legacy to the lives of his three children, Pauline, Hans and Trude. Their different paths through addiction, religious conversion and persecution form a fictional account of a family living in the shadow of an internationally consequential father.
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