July 15, 2010
Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
Nobel Prize in Literature
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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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The Russian Debutante’s Ball by Gary Shteyngart
Part of the new generation of young Jewish writers.
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A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev *** (of 4)
The story of the use of homing pigeons during Israel’s War for Independence, the breed of people that train and keep them, and a moving...
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Nineteen forty-eight by Benny Morris
A revisionist history of the first Arab-Israeli War. In Pelletier Library.
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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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The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Recommended by Junot Diaz, author of Oscar Wao.
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Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears
According to the Times, Jay Winik, “Sears’s reconstruction is “The Civil War equivalent of a modern spy satellite photograph. He hovers above the action, giving...
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Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee
Made someone’s Must-Read list. Newsweek, I think.
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Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
About Brahmin Indian women recommended by LEP.
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