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A Novel
by Sarah McCoy
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by Steve Sem-Sandberg
Published Aug 2017
Read ReviewsPassionately serious, meticulously researched, and deeply profound, this extraordinary and dramatic novel bears witness to oppression and injustice, and offers invaluable and necessary insight into an intolerable chapter in Austria's past.
by Dasa Drndic
Published Mar 2015
Read Reviews"A masterpiece" (A.N. Wilson), this many-layered novel of WWII combines fiction with a Sebaldian collage of facts to explore the fate of Italian Jews under Nazi occupation, through the intimate story of a mother's search for her son
by Maria Hummel
Published Jan 2015
Read ReviewsThe novel bears witness to the shame and courage of Third Reich families during the devastating final days of the war, as each family member's fateful choice lead the reader deeper into questions of complicity and innocence, to the novel's heartbreaking and unforgettable conclusion.
by Colum McCann
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsThe most mature work yet from an incomparable storyteller, TransAtlantic is a profound meditation on identity and history in a wide world that grows somehow smaller and more wondrous with each passing year.
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsA brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences.
by Mary-Rose MacColl
Published Aug 2013
Read ReviewsA bestselling Australian writer's American debut and a heart-wrenching novel of World War I, painting a portrait of the changing role of women in medicine and the powerful legacy of love.
by Chris Bohjalian
Published Apr 2013
Read ReviewsThe Sandcastle Girls is a sweeping historical love story steeped in Chris Bohjalian's Armenian heritage.
No One is Here Except All of Us
by Ramona Ausubel
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsA beguiling, imaginative, inspiring story about the bigness of being alive as an individual, as a member of a tribe, and as a participant in history, exploring how we use storytelling to survive and shape our own truths.
by Tatiana de Rosnay
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsTatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode.
by Markus Zusak
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsA story about, among other things: A girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul. Winner of the 2007 BookBrowse Ruby Award.
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