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"THE STORYTELLING, INFUSED WITH ENERGY THROUGHOUT, GATHERS MOMENTUM AND CULMINATES IN AN ENIGMATIC, UNEXPECTED ENDING."―The New York Times Book Review
The modern day Jonah at the center of Joshua Max Feldman's brilliantly conceived retelling of the Bible's Book of Jonah is a lucky guy: healthy and handsome, with two beautiful women ready to spend the rest of their lives with him, and an enormously successful legal career that gets more promising by the minute. He's celebrating a deal that will surely make him partner at his firm when a bizarre vision at a party changes everything. Jonah tries hard to forget what he's seen, but this disturbing sign is only the first of many he will witness, and before long his life is unrecognizable. As this funny and bold novel moves to Amsterdam and then Las Vegas, Feldman examines the way we live now while asking an age-old question: How can we explain the unexplainable?
- Sales Rank: #1407720 in Books
- Published on: 2015-01-27
- Released on: 2015-01-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.97" h x .95" w x 5.75" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, February 2014: This novel reads like the literary lovechild of filmmaker Albert "Lost in America" Brooks and author Joshua "Then We Came to the End" Ferris. On the surface, it’s a comedy about a smart, successful guy--a young Manhattan lawyer--who, despite his big-deal job and not-one-but-two wonderful women in love with him, can’t seem to be happy. So far, so annoying, right? But wait: don’t throw the book across the room just yet. The task Feldman has set for himself is to make us understand, even to like, Jonah--and by the time our hero has maneuvered himself out of his glam life (through a half-hearted attempt at corporate whistleblowing), we’re rooting for him. And then there’s Judith, Jonah’s brainiac counterpart: a young woman orphaned by 9/11, a young woman also seeking solace, albeit in different ways. (Her sections of the novel are so strong you might ask why Feldman didn’t name his debut The Book of Judith.) When a chance meeting puts these two lost souls together, they are both forever changed. While it’s based very loosely (mercifully) on the biblical story of the same name, and for all that Jonah’s and Judith’s Jewishness is a factor in the novel, The Book of Jonah is more than a religious parable. It’s a universal, timeless tale of loss and the longing for meaning. --Sara Nelson
From Booklist
Feldman’s intriguing first novel, a modern retelling of the Bible’s Book of Jonah, examines the dilemma of faith amid life’s failures and loss. Blessed with ambition and good looks, Jonah Jacobstein is a 32-year-old New York City corporate lawyer who has recently been placed on a high-profile case. While out celebrating that evening, he experiences a vision of the city being destroyed, a catastrophic vision right out of the Bible. As Jonah struggles to comprehend this inexplicable vision, the first of several, and the questions it brings, his life spirals out of control. He calls it quits with an on-again, off-again lover, confesses his infidelity to his girlfriend, destroys a family member’s relationship, and sends an incriminating email that leads to his termination at work. Alone and unemployed, Jonah journeys abroad, living an aimless life with no recognizable ties to his past. While wandering, he crosses paths with Judith, a hardened young woman whose own tale of loss and struggle for meaning parallels Jonah’s. Feldman’s expansive tale offers an invigorating, timeless exploration of existential crises within a contemporary world. --Leah Strauss
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“Finely wrought characters and a pulsing, page-turning narrative.” ―Star Tribune
“The storytelling, infused with energy throughout, gathers momentum and culminates in an enigmatic, unexpected ending . . . The risk-taking and sheer weirdness of The Book of Jonah is worth applauding.” ―The New York Times Book Review
“A beguiling first novel . . . Feldman gives ample proof that he can write about well-dressed New Yorkers with the same prickly wit that Claire Messud offered in The Emperor's Children. His satire lacks that astringent bitterness that can make some witty novels seem heartless. And his willingness to pose the big questions to the whirlwind makes for unusually thoughtful reading.” ―The Washington Post
“Brave and necessary . . . one of the few novels I've read recently that is a genuine page-turner.” ―Cleveland Plain Dealer
“The Book of Jonah is a debut that heralds great promise . . . Feldman works new and inventive wonders from an ancient template.” ―Star Tribune
“It is rare that a novel juxtaposes the contemporary world and the biblical one in such dramatic fashion The Book of Jonah is a compelling read, a clever deconstruction of modern life as reflected in an ancient and timeless lens.” ―Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone
“Feldman captures the contemporary New York zeitgeist, but also effectively tackles questions of biblical proportions: How can we live in a world we can't comprehend? How can we serve a God whose will we can't understand?” ―Shelf Awareness
“Deft and entertaining . . . What a sweet tale this is. While Feldman's prose is assured and sophisticated, the story is one of the oldest. And, in this telling, is worthy of repeating.” ―New York Daily News
“As up-to-date as an iPhone 5S and as timeless as the question it asks: How do we live a righteous life? For all the ironic cool of his novel's slick, modern surface, like writers of the best moral fiction, Joshua Max Feldman touches us in ways that are anything but superficial.” ―Bookpage
“[An] enticing debut novel.” ―Publishers Weekly
“Feldman is clever in his use of the Jonah story, and his novel is of the same strange and enigmatic quality as the original.” ―Kirkus
“Feldman's expansive tale offers an invigorating, timeless exploration of existential crises within a contemporary world.” ―Booklist
“Joshua Max Feldman's debut novel is impressive experimentation with allegory and the antihero…Feldman transforms the archaic dichotomy of good-versus-evil into a profoundly contemporary rumination on the binary of evil and truth.” ―The National Jewish Book Council
“The text of the biblical Book of Jonah is minimal, and its God and its Jonah are ciphers, and their motives enigmatic, but the Jonah of Joshua Feldman's novel is fully realized, a New York corporate lawyer making recognizable compromises until, brushed by the divine, his world dissolves. This engaging novel gives form to an opaque and ancient story while retaining that story's mystery.” ―Zachary Mason, author of The Lost Books of the Odyssey
“Joshua Feldman offers a shrewd, humorous, and entertainingly modern twist on the Old Testament prophet. He's written a bold and very funny book.” ―Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, author of National Book Award finalist Madeleine is Sleeping
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26 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
What Just Happened?
By J. A. Bell
Jonah Jacobstein, ambitious, thirty-two years old, a lawyer on the fast track to becoming a partner at Cunningham Wolf, a prestigious Manhattan law firm has, for lack of a better term, AN EVENT.
Jonah's event is preceded by a chance conversation with a total stranger, a Hasidic Jew, as he and Jonah duck out of the rain in the subway station. The Hasid has a solid grasp of the story of Jonah's namesake and he says, "Jonah was a man of the world, too, just like you. Going about his business, making deals. Then one day "HaShem" came to him and said, `Jonah, go to the corrupt city . . . and tell them that while they have gold [and] finery . . . their soul is naked."
Jonah flees from the Hasid and goes about "the ordinariness" of his life, which in Jonah's case is billing his firm an average 3,000 hours a year (working 9.5 hours a day, 365 days a year), dating both of his girlfriends (one of whom he is about to sign a lease with), and attending parties.
At one of these parties, he sees a photograph of a woman named Judith, excuses himself to the bathroom and there experiences an event (a vision) of Biblical proportions which ends with him glimpsing "I AM JONAH" in the Hebrew alphabet against an empty white blankness, "oceanic in depth."
Jonah flees down the stairs, and in the stairwell he happens upon two men in an embrace that calls up the image of Jacob wrestling with the angel.
Back in the safety of his apartment, Jonah contemplates what just happened: seizure, exhaustion, bad weed, schizophrenia, insanity?
Jonah tries to cling to the ordinariness of his life; tries valiantly to escape his destiny, even as his ordinary life unravels. He flees to Amsterdam, calling it "a vacation," and stays on a houseboat (Jonah in the belly of the whale) with his friend Max who picks up women and propounds the philosophy of Kant. Aboard the houseboat, Jonah has a recurring dream about the Hasid. The Hasid has followed him, the Hasid is chasing him, the Hasid is "doing a leg-kicking Russian folk dance, a bottle balanced on his head." Jonah cannot escape the Hasid! Jonah and Max contemplate the great questions.
And then . . .
You'll have to read it to find out whether Jonah escapes or fulfills his destiny.
I enjoyed this novel, was entertained, found it thought-provoking; at times humorous, ironic. With my smattering of Biblical knowledge, I recognized some of the parallels and imagery that author, Joshua Feldman used as a framework; for instance, the Biblical Judith cut off the head of a general. Readers better versed in the Bible will no doubt make more connections. However, this well-written, towering tale stands on its own as a modern-day novel and will appeal to readers who enjoy great fiction even if they have no knowledge of Biblical characters and events.
29 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
It's hard to know for sure
By wogan
This is a tale which is a biblical allegory and in the end demonstrates there is no escaping what fate or luck or God has intended for you. We see the lives of several people, mainly Jonah a successful up and coming New York lawyer and then there is Judith an intelligent, academically driven young lady. Both of them are Jewish and not particularity involved in their religious faith.
Life takes a turn when Jonah starts having disturbing visions affecting his life and future. Judith has her share of tragedy. There is such minute detail on her life and background that in many ways; she becomes the more interesting character.
Modern life and its pitfalls are encountered. We are swept into existence of constant electronic attachment to i phones and high powered careers. There is a background aura that is disapproving and disparaging of the modern grasping of status and achievement.
In numerous respects it is almost impossible to really like any of the characters. Their faults and missteps at times seem senseless. Jonah's visions begin after a night filled with an inordinate amount of drinking different types of alcohol and he seems to exist in a haze after that point.
The writing and descriptions are well done, including that an essential part of being a New Yorker is the ability to ignore those around you, which Jonah does not do when he encounters a Hasidic Jew on the subway which is the beginning of his allegorical encounter.
Observations on behavior, thoughts and mindsets are well done; but there is a disconnect with all of the characters where one sees no real purpose in their actions and travels. The focus and point of what they desire and want to accomplish is muddled and becomes frustrating for the reader.
30 of 36 people found the following review helpful.
The Chosen One?
By Gary Severance
The Book of Jonah is the story of a young Jewish man living the so-called “good life” in New York City. A studious man his entire young life in line for partnership in a prestigious law firm, Jonah has been willing to work very hard for years to reach his goal. But, what does the goal of partner offer him that he doesn’t already have? Good food, booze, grass, two girlfriends, and a place to sleep in the Big Apple – he already has these maintainers of daily life. Now, as his final test of potential club membership in his firm, he is asked to support the efforts of senior partners to protect a corporate client that has committed multi-million dollar patent theft. Jonah thinks why not, this immoral activity will lead to the peace of mind payoff for all his efforts at success.
Similar to the Biblical description of Jonah, God steps in at a booze and drug fueled party and shocks him in the bathroom with a revelation of the destruction of New York City. It is such stunning negative information that Jonah rejects it and refuses to play the role of warning the people of the world. He tries to run away by ratting out his own firm’s dirty deeds. Jonah is swallowed by the Millennium whale, finding himself fired and footloose with a hefty severance package. Leaving New York aimlessly, Jonah finds himself stoned every day in Amsterdam, the belly of the whale. Is this the fate of the man “chosen by God?” Fate has something in store for Jonah in the form of a chance meeting in Amsterdam with a kindred spirit. But, true to his character, Jonah rejects her too – at first.
In the Bible, Jonah reluctantly accepts his role as prophet. Does the Millennium Jonah make good with God through his relationship with his Jewish kindred spirit? The reader will find the answer in the intelligent but rather flat prose of Mr. Feldman in his first novel. I predict that the author will find his way and breath a bit more life into his characters in future novels.
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