Cesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin - Hardcover

Jerome Charyn is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Cesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press in January 2020); The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt and His Times; In the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song; Jerzy: A Novel; and A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century. Among other honors, his novels have been selected as finalists for the Firecracker Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Charyn has also been named a Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture and received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York.

Select Praise for Jerome Charyn

“Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer―so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.” ―Tom Bissell

“Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature.” ―Michael Chabon

“Charyn is a one off: no other living American writer crafts novels with his vibrancy of historical imagination.” ―William Giraldi

“[Charyn’s] sentences are pure vernacular music, his voice unmistakable.” ―Jonathan Lethem

“One of our most rewarding novelists.” ―Larry McMurtry

“Among Charyn’s writerly gifts is a dazzling energy―a highly inflected rapid-fire prose that pulls us along like a pony cart over rough terrain.” ―Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books

“Who wouldn’t want to grow old like Jerome Charyn? Now in his 80s, the prolific writer seems ever more daring.” ―Ron Charles, Washington Post

“Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons.” ―New Yorker

“One of our most intriguing fiction writers.” ―O, The Oprah Magazine

“Absolutely unique among American writers.” ―Los Angeles Times

“A contemporary American Balzac.” ―Newsday

“Charyn has a gift for the unexpected, both linguistically and narratively. . . . The result is at once surprising and very entertaining.” ―BookPage

“For half a century, [Charyn] has been an unpredictable, unclassifiable, and above all exactingly smart author.” ―Open Letters Review

“Charyn makes artful use of historical fact and fiction’s panache.” ―Kirkus Reviews

“Wherever he takes us, Charyn’s mind is always agile, and his prose is stunningly electric.” ―Jewish Book Council