Category: Europe

September 8, 2010

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War by Neal Sheehan ** (of 4)

Bennie Schriever invents and promotes Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles to assure the mutual destruction of the Soviet Union (and the world) in the event that...

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August 23, 2010

Firewall by Henning Mankell *** (of 4)

What’s not to like about a depressed, grumpy 50-year-old detective fed up with being overworked and being surrounded by nincompoops? Let’s just say I could...

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July 20, 2010

The Imperfectionists ** (of 4)

An English language newspaper based in Rome is staffed by a bunch of losers: men with four ex-wives, women with no self-esteem, Asian over-achievers with...

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July 15, 2010

Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria’s Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd by Sam Apple

A journalist who traveled from childhood memories to adult memories from urban NY to Austria’s highest peaks in search of Hans Breuer, Yiddish folk singer...

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July 14, 2010

The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein

The author, now in his 90s, recalls his impoverished boyhood in a British mill town, on a street where Jews lived on one side and...

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July 14, 2010

Pompeii by Robert Harris ** (of 4)

About the three days before Mount Vesuvius blew its top and decimated the city of Pompeii as seen through the eyes of a conscientious aquarius...

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July 14, 2010

Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell *** (of 4)

The first in the series. Kurt Wallender is a contemporary Swedish policeman who true to the genre of crime fiction is recently divorced, has trouble...

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July 14, 2010

The Art Thief by Noah Charney ** (of 4)

Mildly entertaining. A Caravaggio is stolen from a baroque church in Italy. A 20th century painting is taken from the Kazimir Melevich Society in Paris....

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June 29, 2010

Parrot and Olivier in America *** (of 4)

At the end of the 18th Century, following the French Revolution, Olivier, a French aristocrat modeled on Alexis de Tocqueville arrives in America accompanied by...

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June 22, 2010

The World to Come by Dara Horn *** (of 4)

On the plus side I learned a lot about Chagall. Dara Horn writes well. She channels the great Yiddish authors like Peretsky, Singer, Sholom Aleichem,...

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