{"product_id":"here-i-am-book-jonathan-safran-foer-9780374938215","title":"Here I Am","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInstant\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book of 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMagazine\u003c\/i\u003e Top 10 Novel of 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eDazzling . . . A profound novel about the claims of identity, history, family, and the burdens of a broken world. --Maureen Corrigan, \u003ci\u003eNPR'\u003c\/i\u003es\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, Abraham  before ordering him to sacrifice his son, Isaac, Abraham responds, Here I am. Later, when Isaac calls out, My father  before asking him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, Here I am.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others'? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel in eleven years--a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., \u003ci\u003eHere I Am\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia Bloch and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the meaning of home--and the fundamental question of how much aliveness one can bear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShowcasing the same high-energy inventiveness, hilarious irreverence, and emotional urgency that readers loved in his earlier work, \u003ci\u003e Here I Am \u003c\/i\u003eis Foer's most searching, hard-hitting, and grandly entertaining novel yet. It not only confirms Foer's stature as a dazzling literary talent but reveals a novelist who has fully come into his own as one of our most important writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49588152369425,"sku":"GOR008004036","price":3.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49798623658257,"sku":"CIN0374938210G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374938210.jpg?v=1751071679","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/here-i-am-book-jonathan-safran-foer-9780374938215","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}