For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

by Nathan Englander

Ten irreverent stories rooted in the complexity of Jewish history and the customs of orthodox life: a group of Jews fated for Auschwitz improvises an escape by blending into a troop of acrobats; a married Hasidic man, incensed by his wife's interminable menstrual cycle, gets a dispensation from a rabbi to see a prostitute.

Publisher: Faber and Faber