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1) Homeland
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
590 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht--the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to the United Kingdom, which he boarded alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin. Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Diaz, a blind seven-year-old girl, and her mother board another train,...
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
461 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. As he grows up, Simonopio becomes a cause for wonder to the Morales family,...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Seven Stories Press edition.
Physical Desc
464 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century Argentina, the characters' lives play out in different branches of art, politics and science in such radical ways that they transform the world and its reality. The narrator's ancestor, Frantisek Deliuskin, invents a new form...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 281
Language
English
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A magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.
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