Hope: A Tragedy

Darkly hilarious, dangerously subversive and extraordinarily bold, Shalom Auslander delivers a hilarious and disquieting examination of the burdens and abuse of history. The hero of Hope: A Tragedy had hoped to escape the past, history, wars and genocide in a rural US town but nothing happens as expected. Find out more from one of the most original, wittiest and darkest voices on the Jewish American scene. Join the cult!

Shalom Auslander comes from an ultra-Orthodox background in Monsey, New York. Nominated for the Koret Award for writers under thirty-five, he has published articles in Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, Tablet and the New Yorker and has had stories aired on NPR’s This American Life. He is the author of the short-story collection Beware of God and the memoir Foreskin’s Lament. He lives in New York.

Bidisha is a regular guest on BBC programmes such as Front Row, The Review Show and Saturday Review and has presented The Word and Night Waves. She is also a regular contributor to The Guardian and The Observer. She published her first novel in her first year of university. Her third book is a travel memoir: Venetian Masters.