The new novel by the internationally acclaimed authora aa farce of nuclear proportionsa("Vanity Fair") Arnon Grunberg is one of the most subtly outrageous provocateurs in world literature. "The Jewish Messiah," which chronicles the evolution of one Xavier Radek from malcontent grandson of a former SS officer, to Jewish convert, to co- translator of Hitleras "Mein Kampf" into Yiddish, to Israeli politician and Israelas most unlikely prime minister, is his most outrageous work yet. Taking on the most well-guarded pieties and taboos of our age, "The Jewish Messiah" is both a great love story and a grotesque farce that forces a profound reckoning with the limits of human guilt, cruelty, and suffering. It is without question Arnon Grunbergas masterpiece.