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O My America!
A novel which begins with protagonist Ezra Slavin's unexpected death and then follows on with a reminiscence of his tempestuous career as a first-generation writer, teacher and …
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 …
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 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 …
The Jewish War
Set in the near future within a war-torn Israel, The Jewish War chronicles the rise to power of Jerry Goldberg, a Bronx teen who has devoted his life to hastening the arrival of …
The Island Within
A novel by a modern American Jewish writer. Arthur Levey, a young psychoanalyst, leaves an American wife to journey on some obscure mission to eastern Europe on behalf of his race.
The Walled City
This novel traces the rigid circumscribed lives of three generations of women in an extended Jewish family in the walled Indian city of Ahmedabad.