A wry, fictional account of the life of Christ by Nobel laureate Jose Saramago
A brilliant skeptic, Jose Saramago envisions the life of Jesus Christ and the story of his Passion as things of this earth: A child crying, the caress of a woman half asleep, the bleat of a goat, a prayer uttered in the grayish morning light. His idea of the Holy Family reflects the real complexities of any family, and--as only Saramago can--he imagines them with tinges of vision, dream, and omen. The result is a deft psychological portrait that moves between poetry and irony, spirituality...
A wry, fictional account of the life of Christ by Nobel laureate Jose Saramago
A brilliant skeptic, Jose Saramago envisions th...
In a remote river town deep in the Ecuadoran jungle, Antonio Jose Bolivar seeks refuge in amorous novels. But tourists and opportunists are making inroads into the area, and the balance of nature is making a dangerous shift. Translated by Peter Bush. "
In a remote river town deep in the Ecuadoran jungle, Antonio Jose Bolivar seeks refuge in amorous novels. But tourists and opportunists are making inr...
Seductively heady . . . Ingeniously explores the unfathomable mysteries of the heart. Philadelphia Inquirer A young Israeli intern vying for the position of surgeon learns that his internship has been terminated and he has been chosen to accompany the hospital administrator and his wife on a trip to India. There, the couple intend to retrieve their ailing daughter and bring her back to Israel. The long journey awakens urges in the young doctor that will threaten his carefully contained world. Juxtaposing Western realism and Eastern mysticism, Open Heart is an astonishing work...
Seductively heady . . . Ingeniously explores the unfathomable mysteries of the heart. Philadelphia Inquirer A young Israeli intern vying fo...
From young Andi Scham's memories emerges the story of his father, who recedes from life in Yugoslovia and then disappears in the Holocaust. Andi's search for him is a story that "claims you like a symphonic poem" (Library Journal). Translated by William J. Hannaher.
From young Andi Scham's memories emerges the story of his father, who recedes from life in Yugoslovia and then disappears in the Holocaust. Andi's sea...
Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which human beings torment one another under license of family ties will appreciate the merits of A.B. Yehoshua s A Late Divorce. London Review of Books A powerful story about a family and a country in crisis. The father of three grown children comes back to Israel to get a divorce from his wife of many years; another woman, newly pregnant, awaits him in America. Narrated in turn by each family member husband and wife, sons and daughter, young grandson the drama builds to a crescendo at the traditional family gathering...
Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which human beings torment one another under license of family ties will appreciate the me...
Elusive, haunting. New York Times Book Review A husband s search for his wife s lover, lost amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War, is the heart of this dreamlike novel. Through five different perspectives, Yehoshua explores the realities and consequences of the affair and the search, laying bare deep-rooted tensions within family, between generations, between Jews and Arabs. A] profound study of personal and political trauma. Daily Telegraph "Has the symmetry of an elegantly cut gem. The New Yorker"
Elusive, haunting. New York Times Book Review A husband s search for his wife s lover, lost amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War, is t...
Mr. Mani is a deeply affecting six-generation family saga, extending from nineteenth century Greece and Poland to British-occupied Palestine to German-occupied Crete and ultimately to modern Israel. The narrative moves through time and is told in five conversations about the Mani family. It ends in Athens in 1848 with Avraham Mani s powerful tale about the death of his young son in Jerusalem. A profoundly human novel, rich in drama, irony, and wit."
Mr. Mani is a deeply affecting six-generation family saga, extending from nineteenth century Greece and Poland to British-occupied Palestine to...
Oz s strangest, riskiest, and richest novel. Washington Post Book World Israel, just before the Six-Day War. On a kibbutz, the country s founders and their children struggle to come to terms with their land and with each other. The messianic father exults in accomplishments that had once been only dreams; the son longs to establish an identity apart from his father; the fragile young wife is out of touch with reality; and the gifted and charismatic outsider seethes with emotion. Through the interplay of these brilliantly realized characters, Oz evokes a drama that is chillingly,...
Oz s strangest, riskiest, and richest novel. Washington Post Book World Israel, just before the Six-Day War. On a kibbutz, the country s fo...
Hanta rescues books from the jaws of his compacting press and carries them home. Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera calls our very best writer today, celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word. Translated by Michael Henry Heim. "
Hanta rescues books from the jaws of his compacting press and carries them home. Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera calls our very best writer today, celebrat...
The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home after sixteen years in Brazil. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis,...
