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The Dry Heart (Paperback)
Natalia Ginzburg; Translated by Frances Frenaye
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Dawn (Paperback, Pbk. ed)
Elie Wiesel; Translated by Frances Frenaye
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"The author...has built knowledge into artistic fiction."--"The New
York Times Book Review"
Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli
freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the
captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for
the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long
wait for morning and death provides "Dawn," Elie Wiesel's ever more
timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative.
Caught between the manifold horrors of the past and the troubling
dilemmas of the present, Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and
ultimately God as he waits for the appointed hour and his act of
assassination. "Dawn" is an eloquent meditation on the compromises,
justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they
murder other human beings.
'No message, human or divine, has reached this stubborn poverty ... to this shadowy land ... Christ did not come. Christ stopped at Eboli' Carlo Levi, one of the twentieth-century's most incisive commentators, was exiled to a remote and barren corner of southern Italy for his opposition to Mussolini. He entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in by custom and sorrow, without comfort or solace, where, eternally patient, the peasants lived in an age-old stillness and in the presence of death - for Christ did stop at Eboli.
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This is a new release of the original 1957 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1959 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1957 edition.
The short story collection that launched Tabucchi to fame,
reflecting on the uncertainties, memories, mistakes and mysteries
of life Eleven short stories pivoting on life's ambiguities and the
central question they pose in Tabucchi's fiction: is it choice,
fate, accident, or even, occasionally, a kind of magic that plays a
decisive role in the protagonists' lives? Set in Paris, Lisbon,
Madras and New York and blended with the author's wonderfully
intelligent imagination, Tabucchi reflects on the elemental aspects
of the human experience, exploring grief, uncertainty, adventure,
memory and love. 'One of the most admired Italian writers of his
generation' The Times
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Ines Murat's readable and entertaining narrative introduces us to
little-known facts about the adventures and misadventures of
numerous French veterans of Waterloo who migrated to the United
States. More often than not, their visions of life in this country
conflicted with the original New World dream of the peaceful
pioneer. For two centuries, the lure of what we now call the
American Dream had beckoned rich and poor from the Old World. ""In
all respects,"" said Napoleon, ""America was our true refuge.""
Reported by Las Cases in the Memorial de Sainte-Helene, this
statement signifies only one phase of the connections between the
Emperor and the United States. Anecdotes and incisive portraits of
numerous Bonapartists who came to America vividly portray the
complex intermeshing between the Emperor and the United States.
Anecdotes and incisive portraits of numerous Bonapartists who came
to America vividly portray the complex intermeshing between the
ideals of the French Revolution and the new forms of freedom that
had been born in America. These dramatic accounts bring to the
foreground of history the impact of two world views- that of the
Old World, sheltered in the shadow of Napoleon's belief in
historical destiny, and that of the New World, more experimental
and industrious. The clash produced a resounding din in the
Napoleonic epoch, for which Napoleon and the American Dream traces
new routes and relationships between two cultures.
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The Dry Heart (Paperback)
Natalia Ginzburg; Translated by Frances Frenaye
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The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact
pronouncement: "I shot him between the eyes." As the tale-a plunge
into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and
bitterness-proceeds, the narrator's murder of her flighty husband
takes on a certain logical inevitability. Stripped of any
preciousness or sentimentality, Natalia Ginzburg's writing here is
white-hot, tempered by rage. She transforms the unhappy tale of an
ordinary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller that
seems to beg the question: why don't more wives kill their
husbands?
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