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Title	:	The Believers
Author	:	Zoë Heller
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 307 pages
Published	:	2008 by HarperCollins Publishers
Categories	:	Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary

The Believers

Zoë Heller

Hardcover | Pages: 307 pages

Rating: 3.36 | 5074 Users | 846 Reviews

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Zoë Heller, author of Notes on a Scandal and Everything You Know has written a comic, tragic tale about one family’s struggles with the consolations of faith and the trials of doubt.

When Joel Litvinoff is felled by a stroke, his wife, Audrey, uncovers a secret that forces her to re-examine her ideas about their forty-year marriage. Joel’s children will soon have to come to terms with this unsettling discovery themselves, but for the time being, they are grappling with their own dilemmas. Rosa is being pressed to make a commitment to religion. Karla is falling in love with the owner of a newspaper concession and Lenny is back on drugs. In the course of battling their own demons and each other, every member of the family is called upon to re-examine long-held articles of faith and to decide what – if anything – they still believe in.

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Original Title:	The Believers
ISBN:	0670916129 (ISBN13: 9780670916122)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New York City, New York,2002(United States)
Literary Awards:	Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Nominee (2009), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2010)

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Wow--I couldn't put it down--every character in this novel about a New York city family is so fully drawn and believable. The matriarch of the family, Audry, who is outlandish and entertaining, could have been cartoonish, but Zoe Heller deftly gives us insights into her behavior that make us accept her as a character. No one in the book is particularly loveable or noble, but that is what makes it so interesting, and fun. This book exposes people in all of their hyprocrisies and weaknesses, for

Very old fashioned writing style and didnt like any of the characters!

Set in Hellers adoptive US The Believers is a funny, highly original and adroit satire of New Yorks liberal elite. The title, a wicked irony in itself, belies the books central characters, the Litvinoff tribe - a family of hard line antitheists who have rejected their Jewish heritage and proudly live by socialist values. The father Joel is a charismatic civil rights lawyer, his wife Audrey a raging pot smoking ultra-leftist. Their façade is shattered when Joel suffers a massive stroke and

When choosing this book, I never expected it to be so great. When the father of a family, a lawyer in NY, gets seriously ill, life as people know it, starts to change. This change is sometimes abrupt, but mostley only gradually. Each family member has to come to term with grief, with secrets from the past and tries to adapt to new knowledge instead of old beliefs. The book is A great social satire, written in a clear and elegant style. The characters arent very likable, but they are very human

This is one of those books that make me wonder why restrict ratings to just 5 stars. The discussions on spirituality, religion, orthodoxy, above all Audrey and the reviews from friends was what prompted me to take up this book immediately. I was very much awed by Zoe Hellers creepy and cold narration in her What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal and wanted to take up this book later, so that expectations dont go awry. Ideals are peaceful, history is violent. Every belief system is built on

Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities Having been a reader since I guess forever, books for me fall into two categories; one that blow me away and one that dont; books that are perfect in every sense and those that arent; books that have strong stories that move me and those that dont; simply books that I love and those that I dont.

A tv worthy story where the focal characters happen to be "left-liberals".