The book "Hope: A tragedy" — Шалом АуслендерHope: A tragedy. Главный герой - Соломон Кугель, молодой еврейской профессионал, который желает защитить своего единственного ребенка, трехлетнего Иона от всех ужасных вещей, которые могут случиться с ним. С этой целью Кугель перевозит семью из Нью-Йорка в живописный фермерский дом в сельском городке Стоктон...
The protagonist is Solomon Kugel, a young Jewish professional who yearns for nothing more than to protect his only child, three-year-old Jonah, from all the awful things that could happen to him. To this end, Kugel moves his family – including his wife Bree and his ageing mother – out of New York to a picturesque farmhouse in the rural town of Stockton. There is a local arsonist on the loose but otherwise Stockton is "famous for nothing". The nothingness appeals because Kugel is a man suffocated by history. His childhood was overshadowed by the constant threat of tragedy, encouraged by his mother who, despite being born in Brooklyn in 1946, imagines she is a survivor of the concentration camps. | 
