The Journey
A Novel
Written by H. G. Adler
Translated by Peter Filkins
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $16.00
Here is “a rich and lyrical masterpiece”–notes Peter Constantine–the first translation of a lost treasure by acclaimed author H. G. Adler, a survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Written in 1950, after Adler’s emigration to England, The Journey was ignored by large publishing houses after the war and not released in Germany...
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Eve
A Novel of the First Woman
Written by Elissa Elliott
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $24.00
It is the world’s oldest tale: the story of Eve, her husband, Adam, and the tragedy that would overcome her sons…. In this luminous debut novel, Elissa Elliott puts a powerful twist on biblical narrative, boldly reimagining Eve’s journey. At once intimate and universal, timely and timeless, this unique work of...
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Eve
A Novel
Written by Elissa Elliott
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $24.00
It is the world’s oldest tale: the story of Eve, her husband, Adam, and the tragedy that would overcome her sons…. In this luminous debut novel, Elissa Elliott puts a powerful twist on biblical narrative, boldly reimagining Eve’s journey. At once intimate and universal, timely and timeless, this unique work of...
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Farewell Shanghai
Written by Angel Wagenstein
Translated by Elizabeth Frank and Deliana Simeonova
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $13.95
Elisabeth and Theodore Weissberg, famous musicians, Hilde, a young film extra, and Vladek, an Eastern European adventurer wanted by the police on political charges, flee Nazi Germany for Shanghai at the onset of World War II. A magnet for every human ambition and vice, Shanghai is a city of extremes–of dazzling...
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The Journey
A Novel
Written by H. G. Adler
Translated by Peter Filkins
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $26.00
A major literary event: the first-ever English translation of a lost masterpiece of Holocaust literature by acclaimed author and survivor H. G. Adler
The story behind the story of
The Journey is remarkable in itself: Award-winning translator Peter Filkins discovered an obscure German novel in a Harvard Square bookstore and, reading it...
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Isaac's Torah
Written by Angel Wagenstein
Translated by Elizabeth Frank and Deliana Simeonova
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $23.95
This novel is the saga in five parts of Isaac Jacob Blumenfeld, who grows up in Kolodetz, a small town near Lvov, which, when he’s a boy, belongs to the Hapsburg Empire, but which subsequently belongs to Poland, Soviet Russia, Germany, and then Russia again. Isaac survives the absurdity and horror...
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