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The Metamorphosis
And Other Stories
Written by Franz Kafka
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: November 14, 1995
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1057-6 (0-8052-1057-1)
With a Foreword by Anne Rice; translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. This collection brings together the stories that Kafka allowed to be published during his lifetime. To Max Brod, his literary executor, he wrote: "Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these...Should they disappear altogether that... Read more >
And Other Stories
Written by Franz Kafka
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: November 14, 1995
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1057-6 (0-8052-1057-1)
With a Foreword by Anne Rice; translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. This collection brings together the stories that Kafka allowed to be published during his lifetime. To Max Brod, his literary executor, he wrote: "Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these...Should they disappear altogether that... Read more >
The Sons
Written by Franz Kafka
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: August 5, 1989
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0886-3 (0-8052-0886-0)
With an Introduction by Mark Anderson. Seventy-five years after Kafka's request for The Stoker, The Metamorphosis, and The Judgment to be published together in a book called The Sons, his wish has come true. These three classic stories of filial revolt as well as his own poignant "Letter to His Father,"... Read more >
Written by Franz Kafka
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: August 5, 1989
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0886-3 (0-8052-0886-0)
With an Introduction by Mark Anderson. Seventy-five years after Kafka's request for The Stoker, The Metamorphosis, and The Judgment to be published together in a book called The Sons, his wish has come true. These three classic stories of filial revolt as well as his own poignant "Letter to His Father,"... Read more >
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The Trial
A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
Written by Franz Kafka
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: May 25, 1999
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0999-0 (0-8052-0999-9)
Until now, students have been able to read Kafka’s masterpiece only in a translation of the 1925 German edition that was edited by Max Brod (Kafka’s friend and literary executor), from an unfinished manuscript. Both Brod's edition and its 1937 translation by Will and Edwin Muir have long been considered flawed.
This... Read more >
A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
Written by Franz Kafka
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: May 25, 1999
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0999-0 (0-8052-0999-9)
Until now, students have been able to read Kafka’s masterpiece only in a translation of the 1925 German edition that was edited by Max Brod (Kafka’s friend and literary executor), from an unfinished manuscript. Both Brod's edition and its 1937 translation by Will and Edwin Muir have long been considered flawed.
This... Read more >
Burnt Books
Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka
Written by Rodger Kamenetz
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4257-7 (0-8052-4257-0)
Rodger Kamenetz, acclaimed author of The Jew in the Lotus, has long been fascinated by the mystical tales of the Hasidic master Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. And for many years he has taught a course in Prague on Franz Kafka. The more he thought about their lives and writings, the more... Read more >
Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka
Written by Rodger Kamenetz
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4257-7 (0-8052-4257-0)
Rodger Kamenetz, acclaimed author of The Jew in the Lotus, has long been fascinated by the mystical tales of the Hasidic master Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav. And for many years he has taught a course in Prague on Franz Kafka. The more he thought about their lives and writings, the more... Read more >
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Stardust Lost
The Triumph, Tragedy, and Meshugas of the Yiddish Theater in America
Written by Stefan Kanfer
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7803-5 (1-4000-7803-2)
In Stardust Lost, Stefan Kanfer brings the colorful Yiddish stage roaring back to life.
Born of ancient traditions stretching back to the drama of the Old Testament, the Yiddish theater was a vibrant part of the immigrant experience. Kanfer invokes the energy, belief, and pure chutzpah it took to establish and... Read more >
The Triumph, Tragedy, and Meshugas of the Yiddish Theater in America
Written by Stefan Kanfer
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7803-5 (1-4000-7803-2)
In Stardust Lost, Stefan Kanfer brings the colorful Yiddish stage roaring back to life.
Born of ancient traditions stretching back to the drama of the Old Testament, the Yiddish theater was a vibrant part of the immigrant experience. Kanfer invokes the energy, belief, and pure chutzpah it took to establish and... Read more >
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By Fire, By Water
Written by Mitchell James Kaplan
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: May 18, 2010
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-352-1 (1-59051-352-5)
Luis de Santángel, chancellor to the court and longtime friend of the lusty King Ferdinand, has had enough of the Spanish Inquisition. As the power of Inquisitor General Tomás de Torquemada grows, so does the brutality of the Spanish church and the suspicion and paranoia it inspires. When a dear friend’s... Read more >
Written by Mitchell James Kaplan
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: May 18, 2010
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-352-1 (1-59051-352-5)
Luis de Santángel, chancellor to the court and longtime friend of the lusty King Ferdinand, has had enough of the Spanish Inquisition. As the power of Inquisitor General Tomás de Torquemada grows, so does the brutality of the Spanish church and the suspicion and paranoia it inspires. When a dear friend’s... Read more >
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Hand-Drying in America
And Other Stories
Written by Ben Katchor
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-90690-8 (0-307-90690-6)
WITH BEAUTIFUL FULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT
From one of the most original and imaginative American cartoonists at work today comes a collection of graphic narratives on the subjects of urban planning, product design, and architecture—a surrealist handbook for the rebuilding of society in the twenty-first century.
Ben Katchor, a master at twisting mundane commodities... Read more >
And Other Stories
Written by Ben Katchor
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-90690-8 (0-307-90690-6)
WITH BEAUTIFUL FULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT
From one of the most original and imaginative American cartoonists at work today comes a collection of graphic narratives on the subjects of urban planning, product design, and architecture—a surrealist handbook for the rebuilding of society in the twenty-first century.
Ben Katchor, a master at twisting mundane commodities... Read more >
The Jew of New York
Written by Ben Katchor
Format: Trade Paperback, 108 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: December 26, 2000
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70097-2 (0-375-70097-8)
In 1825, Mordecai Noah, a New York politician and amateur playwright possessed of a utopian vision, summoned all the lost tribes of Israel to an island near Buffalo in the hope of establishing a Jewish state. His failed plan, a mere footnote in Jewish-American history, is the starting point for Ben... Read more >
Written by Ben Katchor
Format: Trade Paperback, 108 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: December 26, 2000
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70097-2 (0-375-70097-8)
In 1825, Mordecai Noah, a New York politician and amateur playwright possessed of a utopian vision, summoned all the lost tribes of Israel to an island near Buffalo in the hope of establishing a Jewish state. His failed plan, a mere footnote in Jewish-American history, is the starting point for Ben... Read more >
Dossier K
A Memoir
Written by Imre Kertesz
Translated by Tim Wilkinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-61219-202-4 (1-61219-202-5)
The first and only memoir from the Nobel Prize—winning author, in the form of an illuminating, often funny, and often combative interview–with himself
Dossier K. is Imre Kertész’s response to the hasty biographies and profiles that followed his 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature–an attempt to set the record straight.
The result is... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Imre Kertesz
Translated by Tim Wilkinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-61219-202-4 (1-61219-202-5)
The first and only memoir from the Nobel Prize—winning author, in the form of an illuminating, often funny, and often combative interview–with himself
Dossier K. is Imre Kertész’s response to the hasty biographies and profiles that followed his 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature–an attempt to set the record straight.
The result is... Read more >
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Fatelessness
Written by Imre Kertesz
Translated by Tim Wilkinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7863-9 (1-4000-7863-6)
At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who... Read more >
Written by Imre Kertesz
Translated by Tim Wilkinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7863-9 (1-4000-7863-6)
At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who... Read more >
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Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Written by Imre Kertesz
Translated by Tim Wilkinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 132 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7862-2 (1-4000-7862-8)
The first word in this mesmerizing novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is “No.” It is how the novel’s narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child. It is the answer he gave his wife (now ex-wife) years earlier... Read more >
Written by Imre Kertesz
Translated by Tim Wilkinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 132 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7862-2 (1-4000-7862-8)
The first word in this mesmerizing novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is “No.” It is how the novel’s narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child. It is the answer he gave his wife (now ex-wife) years earlier... Read more >
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Yossel
Written by Joe Kubert
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Vertigo
On Sale: May 17, 2011
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 978-1-4012-3180-4 (1-4012-3180-2)
Famed comic creator Joe Kubert’s family came to America from Poland in the 1920s, but the family almost was not allowed into the country. YOSSEL asks the question, “What if my family had still been in Poland when the Warsaw Ghetto was founded?”
In 1939, Yossel and his family were relocated... Read more >
Written by Joe Kubert
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Vertigo
On Sale: May 17, 2011
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 978-1-4012-3180-4 (1-4012-3180-2)
Famed comic creator Joe Kubert’s family came to America from Poland in the 1920s, but the family almost was not allowed into the country. YOSSEL asks the question, “What if my family had still been in Poland when the Warsaw Ghetto was founded?”
In 1939, Yossel and his family were relocated... Read more >
Rowing Lesson
Written by Anne Landsman
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Soho Press
On Sale: November 1, 2008
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-1-56947-528-7 (1-56947-528-8)
Winner of the South African M-Net Literary Prize (English category)
Betsy Klein is summoned from her home in the United States to the bedside of her dying father in a South African hospital. Faced with having to say goodbye, she delves into his mind, speaking to him in the lyrical second-person. She... Read more >
Written by Anne Landsman
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Soho Press
On Sale: November 1, 2008
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-1-56947-528-7 (1-56947-528-8)
Winner of the South African M-Net Literary Prize (English category)
Betsy Klein is summoned from her home in the United States to the bedside of her dying father in a South African hospital. Faced with having to say goodbye, she delves into his mind, speaking to him in the lyrical second-person. She... Read more >
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The Wanting
A Novel
Written by Michael Lavigne
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1255-6 (0-8052-1255-8)
From the author of Not Me, this powerful novel about an Israeli father and his daughter brings to life a rich canvas of events and unexpected change in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
In the galvanizing opening of The Wanting, the celebrated Russian-born postmodern architect Roman Guttman is injured in a... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Michael Lavigne
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1255-6 (0-8052-1255-8)
From the author of Not Me, this powerful novel about an Israeli father and his daughter brings to life a rich canvas of events and unexpected change in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
In the galvanizing opening of The Wanting, the celebrated Russian-born postmodern architect Roman Guttman is injured in a... Read more >
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The Song of Names
Written by Norman Lebrecht
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3489-5 (1-4000-3489-2)
Martin Simmonds’ father tells him, “Never trust a musician when he speaks about love.” The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds’s care before they perished in the Holocaust. For a time the two boys are... Read more >
Written by Norman Lebrecht
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3489-5 (1-4000-3489-2)
Martin Simmonds’ father tells him, “Never trust a musician when he speaks about love.” The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds’s care before they perished in the Holocaust. For a time the two boys are... Read more >
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A Fine Romance
Jewish Songwriters, American Songs
Written by David Lehman
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4250-8 (0-8052-4250-3)
In A Fine Romance, David Lehman looks at the formation of the American songbook—the timeless numbers that became jazz standards, iconic love songs, and sound tracks to famous movies—and explores the extraordinary fact that this songbook was written almost exclusively by Jews.
An acclaimed poet, editor, and cultural critic, David Lehman hears... Read more >
Jewish Songwriters, American Songs
Written by David Lehman
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4250-8 (0-8052-4250-3)
In A Fine Romance, David Lehman looks at the formation of the American songbook—the timeless numbers that became jazz standards, iconic love songs, and sound tracks to famous movies—and explores the extraordinary fact that this songbook was written almost exclusively by Jews.
An acclaimed poet, editor, and cultural critic, David Lehman hears... Read more >
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The Mirror Maker
Stories and Essays
Written by Primo Levi
Format: Trade Paperback, 188 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: September 19, 1990
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0989-1 (0-8052-0989-1)
With the publication of The Periodic Table on 1984, Primo Levi became one of America’s most beloved writers. This new collection of his stories and essays reveals the full imaginative range of this great Italian writer. Most of the stories are science fiction and fantasy, combining Levi’s love for science with... Read more >
Stories and Essays
Written by Primo Levi
Format: Trade Paperback, 188 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: September 19, 1990
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0989-1 (0-8052-0989-1)
With the publication of The Periodic Table on 1984, Primo Levi became one of America’s most beloved writers. This new collection of his stories and essays reveals the full imaginative range of this great Italian writer. Most of the stories are science fiction and fantasy, combining Levi’s love for science with... Read more >
Crossing the Borders of Time
A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
Written by Leslie Maitland
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-570-9 (1-59051-570-6)
Leslie Maitland is an award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter whose mother and grandparents fled Germany in 1938 for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees, the last two under risk of Nazi deportation. In 1942 they made it onto the last boat to escape France before... Read more >
A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
Written by Leslie Maitland
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-570-9 (1-59051-570-6)
Leslie Maitland is an award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter whose mother and grandparents fled Germany in 1938 for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees, the last two under risk of Nazi deportation. In 1942 they made it onto the last boat to escape France before... Read more >
Talking to the Enemy
Stories
Written by Avner Mandelman
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-729-9 (1-58322-729-6)
•American Library Association Sophie Brody Award
•Kirkus Best Book of 2005
•I.J. Siegel Award for Fiction.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has shaped the consciousness of a generation, but never before has it been brought to life in such vivid and telling prose. Part Tim O’Brien and part Bernard Malamud, Avner Mandelman’s Talking to the... Read more >
Stories
Written by Avner Mandelman
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-729-9 (1-58322-729-6)
•American Library Association Sophie Brody Award
•Kirkus Best Book of 2005
•I.J. Siegel Award for Fiction.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has shaped the consciousness of a generation, but never before has it been brought to life in such vivid and telling prose. Part Tim O’Brien and part Bernard Malamud, Avner Mandelman’s Talking to the... Read more >
The End of the Jews
A Novel
Written by Adam Mansbach
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52042-3 (0-385-52042-5)
Now in paperback
Each member of the mercurial clan in Adam Mansbach’s novel faces the impossible choice between the people they love and the art that sustains them. Tristan Brodsky, sprung from the asphalt of the depression-era Bronx, goes on to become one of the swaggering Jewish geniuses who remakes American culture... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Adam Mansbach
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52042-3 (0-385-52042-5)
Now in paperback
Each member of the mercurial clan in Adam Mansbach’s novel faces the impossible choice between the people they love and the art that sustains them. Tristan Brodsky, sprung from the asphalt of the depression-era Bronx, goes on to become one of the swaggering Jewish geniuses who remakes American culture... Read more >
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The Flame Alphabet
Written by Ben Marcus
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-73997-1 (0-307-73997-X)
In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones.
The sound of children's speech has become lethal. In the park, adults wither beneath the powerful screams of their offspring. For young parents Sam... Read more >
Written by Ben Marcus
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-73997-1 (0-307-73997-X)
In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones.
The sound of children's speech has become lethal. In the park, adults wither beneath the powerful screams of their offspring. For young parents Sam... Read more >
I Am Forbidden
A Novel
Written by Anouk Markovits
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Hogarth
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-98473-9 (0-307-98473-7)
Sweeping from the Central European countryside just before World War II to Paris to contemporary Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I Am Forbidden brings to life four generations of one Satmar family.
Opening in 1939 Transylvania, five-year-old Josef witnesses the murder of his family by the Romanian Iron Guard and is rescued by a Gentile... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Anouk Markovits
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Hogarth
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-98473-9 (0-307-98473-7)
Sweeping from the Central European countryside just before World War II to Paris to contemporary Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I Am Forbidden brings to life four generations of one Satmar family.
Opening in 1939 Transylvania, five-year-old Josef witnesses the murder of his family by the Romanian Iron Guard and is rescued by a Gentile... Read more >
The Outside World
Written by Tova Mirvis
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7528-7 (1-4000-7528-9)
Tzippy Goldman was born for marriage. She and her mother had always assumed she’d graduate high school, be set up with the right boy, and have a beautiful wedding with white lace and pareve vanilla cream frosting. But at twenty-two, Tzippy’s fast approaching spinsterhood. She dreams of escape; instead, she leaves... Read more >
Written by Tova Mirvis
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7528-7 (1-4000-7528-9)
Tzippy Goldman was born for marriage. She and her mother had always assumed she’d graduate high school, be set up with the right boy, and have a beautiful wedding with white lace and pareve vanilla cream frosting. But at twenty-two, Tzippy’s fast approaching spinsterhood. She dreams of escape; instead, she leaves... Read more >
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All Our Worldly Goods
Written by Irene Nemirovsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-74329-9 (0-307-74329-2)
In haunting ways, this gorgeous novel prefigures Irène Némirovsky’s masterpiece Suite Française. Set in France between 1910 and 1940 and first published in France in 1947, five years after the author’s death, All Our Worldly Goods is a gripping story of war, family life and star-crossed lovers. Pierre and Agnes marry... Read more >
Written by Irene Nemirovsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-74329-9 (0-307-74329-2)
In haunting ways, this gorgeous novel prefigures Irène Némirovsky’s masterpiece Suite Française. Set in France between 1910 and 1940 and first published in France in 1947, five years after the author’s death, All Our Worldly Goods is a gripping story of war, family life and star-crossed lovers. Pierre and Agnes marry... Read more >
Suite Francaise
Written by Irene Nemirovsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9627-5 (1-4000-9627-8)
Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940, Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without... Read more >
Written by Irene Nemirovsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9627-5 (1-4000-9627-8)
Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940, Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without... Read more >
