Arnon Grunberg

Brilliant absurdist chronicle of a hapless outsider's struggle to do the right thing. Arnon Grunberg's fourteenth novel charts the downfall of Geniek Janowski, a Polish-German firefighter doing his best to be a good father, husband, lover, and colleague, only to fail on all fronts. Geniek leads a seemingly unremarkable life with his wife, Wen, and their son, Jurek, in the...