Continuing with her narration of the story of the Patriarchs in the Book of Genesis, After These Things is an account of the relationship between Abraham's tragic son Isaac and Isaac's son Jacob. The book follows the psychological trail of the children of Abraham, the first properly constituted family and finds that like all families, their story is structured by wishes and fears. In Isaac and Jacob's relationship we see all the complexities of love, power, desire that make them quintessentially human.
The inimitable Jenny Diski tells this ancient story anew, with the deliciously subversive wit and intelligence readers have come to expect from this wonderfully surprising writer.
- ' In her recasting of this everyday story of Biblical folk she has given us a searching narrative of considerable modern passion.' Guardian Goodness, it is interesting. And all it took was Diski's cool, elegant, rather cruel prose.' Sunday Telegraph 'Particularly good on the sibling rivalries, petty jealousies and jockeying for position that drive Abraham's offspring. . .It is the human drama that interests Diski' Telegraph
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Published 03/02/2005
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