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Anna in the Afterlife
A splendidly translated exploration of major themes in classical Arabic literature by the most inventive and provocative critic of Arabic literature in the Middle East today. In …
A Plague of Dreamers
This collection of comic tales centres on ""The Pinch"" - a backwater Jewish community in Memphis - whose citizens refer to themselves as ""The Lost Tribe"". Stern's characters are …
Day My Mother Cried and Other Stories
The lasting charm of Kaufman’s stories lies in a delightful mix of personal incidents and observations set against an anchoring backdrop of cultural tradition. His new collection …
Empire of Kalman the Cripple
This character study is the story of an individual living in a Jewish ""shletl"" in Poland, just before World War II. Elberg's narrative presents a tortured soul, who maliciously …
Anna in Chains
A group of connected stories about Anna Goldman, a widowed 80-year-old woman living alone in the Fairfax neighbourhood in Los Angeles and her struggle to maintain her independence, …
The Human Season
Joe Berman is a 59-year-old immigrant plumber facing the loss of his wife. The months that follow, as he fights his way to a new idea of life, death, and God, are part of his human …
Waiting for America
In 1987, a young Jewish man, the central figure in this captivating book, leaves Moscow for good with his parents. They celebrate their freedom in opulent Vienna and spend two …
The Day My Mother Changed Her Name and Other Stories
William D. Kaufman grew up on his mother's kugel and his father's boyhood stories. The son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and the Ukraine and one of five children, he learned …
The Yemenite Girl
A love story with a comic flair. The novel explores the phenomena of fame and hero-worship, as well as the relationship between life and art.
The Kingdom of Brooklyn
A ten-year chronicle of domestic violence and crisis, this novel recreates the pathology of one Brooklyn family in the mid-1940s and early 1950s, told through the voice of a young …
Victory Gardens of Brooklyn
In ""The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn"", Merrill Joan Gerber, so often applauded for her pure and natural prose, illuminates the sorrows and triumphs of three generations of sisters …
While the Messiah Tarries
Combining history, fable, theology, and myth, these nine stories, by turns magical and mundane, comic and tragic, are remarkable for the breadth of their concerns and the depth of …