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Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen-year-old Albert was raised in a Bavarian orphanage due to the mental incapacities of his much older father. Unfortunately, he never knew his mother. When Albert discovers his father only has five months left to live, he takes the old man and sets off on an adventurous voyage to find his real mother. Their venture leads them into the distant past, way back to a night in August 1912, and to the story of a forbidden love." --
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
This expansive family saga, set against the backdrop of the collapse of East German communism, begins in September 2001 as Alexander Umnitzer, who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, leaves behind his ailing father to fly to Mexico, where his grandparents lived as exiles in the 1940s. The novel then takes us both forward and back in time, creating a panoramic view of the family's history: from Alexander's grandparents' return to the German...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"In the city of Beirut, five shabby dwellings circle a courtyard with a pomegranate tree weeping blood red fruit. The residents hear screams in the night as a boy is beaten by his father - a punishment for masturbating in his sleep. A crime not worthy of the punishment: the neighbors gossip and decide that he must have tried to rape his sisters. The poems he writes are perhaps an even greater crime to his father, but ultimately a gift to his eldest...
12) The last brother
Author
Publisher
Graywolf
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"As 1944 comes to a close, nine-year-old Raj is unaware of the war devastating the rest of the world. He lives in Mauritius, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, where survival is a daily struggle for his family. After a brutal beating lands Raj in the hospital of a prison camp, he meets David, a boy his own age. David is a refugee, one of a groups of Jewish exiles now indefinitely detained in Mauritius. When a massive storm on the island brings chaos...
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