Here I Am

Publisher's description. The New York Times bestselling new novel from the author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Wildly exhilarating and profoundly moving, this is the story of a man in crisis, a family imploding, a planet on the brink of disaster. Here I Am is a great American novel for our times, a masterpiece about how we live now.

Penguin

A brilliantly acrobatic imagination

Sunday Times

Foer writes like a dream. . . big-hearted, courageous and jaw-droppingly clever

Deborah Moggach

A darkly hilarious mile-a-minute novel

Guardian

Foer has stretched and expanded the possibilities of the novel without losing either intellectual integrity or emotional honesty. Here I Am is not just bold, it is brave... It will be remembered when all the dinner party novels are long forgotten

Scotsman

Towering and glorious: a tale of social, familial and marital breakdown . . . and the End of the World. The funniest literary novel I have ever read

The Times

Emotional depth and dramatic maturity... Unarguably Foer's most substantial and impressive work yet

Herald

Highly enjoyable and extremely funny... Foer is an absolute master of his fictional universe

Times Literary Supplement

Provocative . . . very, very funny. Dialogue pings, as animated and inventive as an Aaron Sorkin script.

Sunday Times

Lays bare the interior of a marriage with such intelligence and deep feeling and pitiless clarity, it's impossible to read it and not re-examine your own family.

TIME

Terrific, truthful, extremely funny and heartbreaking.

New Statesman

A rich, beautifully written, ambitious and grandly moving novel, which looks both at the world at large and at the deepest concerns of individual lives.

Evening Standard

Astonishing. So sad and so funny and so wry. The book that The Corrections ought to have been

Scotland on Sunday

Brilliant, masterly, always original

New York Times Book Review

An ambitious platter of intellection and emotion. Its observations are crisp; its intimations of doom resonate; its jokes are funny. Foer's best and most caustic novel, filled with so much pain and regret that your heart sometimes struggles to hold it all. Has more teeming life in it than several hundred well-meaning and well-reviewed books of midlist fiction put together

New York Times