Literary
Caging Skies
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Like many Viennese boys of the late 1930s, Johannes Betzler joins the Hitler Youth, in which he takes great pride, and swallows the ...Read Review
Lux
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This complex novel is written in three main sections. In the first, we read of how the Ark of the Covenant was captured ...Read Review
The Oblique Place
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The author, who died in 2015 aged just 53, has left a profound literary achievement in this novel, which makes the reader regret her early ...Read Review
Guesthouse for Ganesha
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In 1923, Esther Grünspan settles in Köln from Poland. She has been jilted on her wedding day, and the betrayal of love ...Read Review
His Name is David
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The novel opens during World War I, with a soldier bound to a post, about to be executed by a firing squad. The ...Read Review
The Parisian
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Midhat Kamal, the main character in this story of Europe and Palestine in the early 1900s, leaves Nablus to study medicine in France, ...Read Review
A Man in Love
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In the summer of 1823, while on a promenade in Marienbad, Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe, then 73, literary, scientific, and cultural lion, confidant of kings, ...Read Review
The First Mrs. Rothschild
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With her third novel, a prizewinner in Israel, Sara Aharoni illuminates the matriarch of an international banking dynasty, perhaps the most famous in ...Read Review
Chimes of a Lost Cathedral (Revolution of Marina M.)
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At midnight, at the end of this epic 750-page novel that reads with echoes of Pasternak and Tolstoy, I wanted more. That’s ...Read Review
Gone to Earth
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The latest novel from the prolific Maurice Leitch is set on the Torremolinos coast of Spain in the 1950s and is told through ...Read Review
