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  • The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Edited by Seth Wolitz ...
    Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts. Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are generally shortened, often shorn of much description and religious matter, and their perspectives and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Jean-Claude Grumberg

    Three Plays

    by Jean-Claude Grumberg ...
    Translated by Seth L. Wolitz ...
    Series series Exploring Jewish Arts and Culture
    Winner of seven Molières, the Pulitzer Prize of France, Jean-Claude Grumberg is one of France's leading dramatists and a distinguished voice of modern European Jewry after the Shoah. His success in portraying contemporary Parisian Jews on the stage represents a new development in European theater and a new aesthetic expression of European Jewish experience and sensibility of the Holocaust and its ... Read more

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  • The Lost Girl in Paris

    A gripping and heartbreaking WW2 historical novel

    by Jina Bacarr ...
    'A moving novel of strength and resistance in the face of evil but also an inspiring journey of resilience after loss' Erin Litteken'I will never forget what the Nazi did to me. Never'1940, Nazi-occupied Paris. A powerful story of love, tragedy and incredible courage, about one woman whose life is ripped apart by war and risks everything to seek justice.As Nazis patrol the streets of the French ... Read more

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  • A Fifty-Year Silence

    Love, War, and a Ruined House in France

    by Miranda Richmond Mouillot ...
    A young woman moves across an ocean to uncover the truth about her grandparents' mysterious estrangement and pieces together the extraordinary story of their wartime experiencesIn 1948, after surviving World War II by escaping Nazi-occupied France for refugee camps in Switzerland, Miranda's grandparents, Anna and Armand, bought an old stone house in a remote, picturesque village in the South of ... Read more

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  • Getting Lost

    by Annie Ernaux ...
    Translated by Alison L. Strayer ...
    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe diary of one of France’s most important, award-winning writers during the year she had a passionate and secret love affair with a Russian diplomatGetting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but ... Read more

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  • But You Did Not Come Back

    A Memoir of the Holocaust

    by Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Judith Perrignon ...
    A breathtakingly beautiful memoir by a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and an astonishing addition to the library of literature on the HolocaustMarceline Loridan-Ivens was just fifteen when she was arrested along with her father in the Vichy-ruled part of France. Her mother and siblings managed to escape arrest. On their arrival at the camps, the two were separated--her father sent to Auschwitz, ... Read more

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  • The Last Hours in Paris

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    by Ruth Druart ...
    From the author of While Paris Slept comes a story of great love, betrayal, and redemption, set in WWII and 1960s France and England."Words are power. They can bring you down, lift you up, make your heart soar, make you fall in love. Or make you hate."Paris 1944**.** Elise Chevalier knows what it is to love . . . and to hate. Her fiancé, a young French soldier, was killed by the German army at the ... Read more

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  • The Mystery of Henri Pick

    by David Foenkinos ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    Series series Walter Presents
    The delightful first title in a new collaboration with Channel 4's Walter Presents: a fast-paced comic mystery enriched by a deep love of booksIn the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers. Visiting while on holiday, young editor Delphine Despero is thrilled to discover a novel so powerful that she ... Read more

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  • Hiding in Plain Sight

    Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France

    by Sarah Lew Miller, Joyce B. Lazarus ...
    A Holocaust survivor chronicles growing up in occupied France while hiding from the Nazis during World War II in this moving memoir."Today's reader will find it hard not to be changed . . . by this haunting memoir." —Betsy Sterman, author of Saratoga Secret"Unpretentious and straightforward . . . a captivating read." —Dr. Mary-Ann Stadtler-Chester, Framingham State UniversityHiding in ... ... Read more

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  • The Young Survivors

    by Debra Barnes ...
    What if everyone you loved was suddenly taken away? Five siblings struggle to stay together as the tides of war threaten to tear them apart.When Germany invades France in the Second World War, the five Laskowski children lose everything: their home, their Jewish community and most devastatingly their parents who are abducted in the night. There is no safe place left for them to evade the Nazis, ... Read more

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  • How to Take Your Time

    from How Proust Can Change Your Life

    by Alain De Botton ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    Curiously practical—this no-nonsense blend of literary biography and self-help unravels how interesting life can be if only you could resist the impulse to rush through the mundane rituals of modern life. Every morning, Marcel Proust sipped his two cups of strong coffee with milk, ate a croissant from one boulangerie, dunking it in his coffee as he slowly read the day’s paper with great care ... Read more

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  • The Incorrigible Optimists Club

    by Jean-Michel Guenassia ...
    Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini—amateur photographer and compulsive reader—is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grown-up world—of rock 'n' roll and of the Algerian War. But as the sun sinks and the plastic players spin, Michel's concentration is not on the game, but on ... Read more

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