In 1999, Nathan Englander published the New York Times best-selling story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. A starred Kirkus Review says of Englander’s long awaited new novel: The fate of Argentina’s Jews during the 1976-83 Dirty War is depicted with blistering emotional intensity in The Ministry of Special Cases.... Englander’s story collection promised a brilliant future, and that promise is here fulfilled beyond all expectations.