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  • Procession: Stories from a Polish Past

    by Anna Baum ...
    Short stories of the Jewish experience in Poland in the years before, during, and after World War II. A slow but steady parade of real-life characters marches across the page, beginning in the paradise of privileged prewar life, moving inexorably forward despite the early warnings of the imminent destruction. Along the way, they forge chasms, shed possessions and family, face the abyss, then ... Read more

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  • A New Beginning and Other Stories

    by Anna Baum ...
    Short stories of the Jewish experience in Poland in the years before, during, and after World War II. A slow but steady parade of real-life characters marches across the page, beginning in the paradise of privileged prewar life, moving inexorably forward despite the early warnings of the imminent destruction. Along the way, they forge chasms, shed possessions and family, face the abyss, then ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • A Chance Encounter and Other Stories of Polish Jewry

    by Anna Baum ...
    Short stories of the Jewish experience in Poland in the years before, during, and after World War II. A slow but steady parade of real-life characters marches across the page, beginning in the paradise of privileged prewar life, moving inexorably forward despite the early warnings of the imminent destruction. Along the way, they forge chasms, shed possessions and family, face the abyss, then ... Read more

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  • Winter Journey

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    Diane Armstrong's bestselling fictional debutA mother's silence, a village with a terrible secret, and an Australian woman who travels to Poland to uncover the truth ... When forensic dentist Halina Shore arrives in Nowa Kalwaria to take part in a war crimes investigation, she finds herself at the centre of a bitter struggle in a community that has been divided by a grim legacy. What she does not ... Read more

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  • THE MASTER AND MARGARITA

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    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    A 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the incomparable 20th-century masterpiece of satire and fantasy, in a newly revised version of the acclaimed Pevear and Volokhonsky translationNothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow. Mikhail Bulgakov’s ... Read more

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  • Sister, Sister

    by Anna Rosner Blay ...
    From the busy marketplaces of pre-war Krakow, Poland, to the horror of the Holocaust and the haven of Schindler's factory, to the apparent peace and safety of a suburban backyard in Melbourne, Australia, this is the story of two sisters who miraculously survived.Their extraordinary life stories are interwoven with the childhood and later memories of the narrator, Anna, daughter and niece of the ... Read more

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  • The Inventory

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    by Gila Lustiger ...
    Translated by Rebecca Morrison ...
    Combining the authenticity of reportage with the emotional intensity of an extraordinary imagination, The Inventory is a profoundly unsettling account of the effects of Nazi paranoia upon every segment of German society. Writing with piercing clarity and searing irony, Gila Lustiger weaves together the tales of ordinary people swept up in a society where brutal oppression and extermination are ... Read more

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  • Mosaic

    A Chronicle of Five Generations

    by Diane Armstrong ...
    From the bestselling author of THE VOYAGE OF THEIR LIFE, WINTER JOURNEY and NOCTURNEthis remarkable true story begins in the Polish city of Krakow in 1890 and spans one hundred years and four continents. God blessed Lieba and the devout Jewish patriarch Daniel Baldinger with eleven children, and this richly textured portrait follows their lives down the decades, through the terrifying years of the ... Read more

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  • Subtly Worded and Other Stories

    by Teffi ...
    Translated by Anne Marie Jackson, Robert Chandler ...
    series Pushkin Collection
    A selection of the finest short stories from “one of the most popular writers in Russia,” praised by many as the female Chekhov (The New York Times)Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely funny—a wry, ... Read more

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  • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

    by Peter Handke ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    series Pushkin Collection
    "My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide."So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost ... Read more

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  • The Pianist

    The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

    by Wladyslaw Szpilman ...
    The memoir that inspired Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film, which won the Cannes Film Festival's most prestigious prize—the Palme d'Or.Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles TimesOn September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside—so loudly that he couldn't hear his piano. It was the last live music ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Book of Dirt

    by Bram Presser ...
    ‘An immense work of love and anger, a book Bram Presser was born to write.’ Joan LondonThey chose not to speak and now they are gone…What’s left to fill the silence is no longer theirs. This is my story, woven from the threads of rumour and legend.Jakub Rand flees his village for Prague, only to find himself trapped by the Nazi occupation. Deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, he is ... Read more

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