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“robert wechsler”

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  • Living Parallel

    by Alexandr Kliment, Robert Wechsler, Ivan Klíma ...
    This novel about conflicts of conscience explores an unusual love triangle of a man, a woman, and the Czech countryside. Finally winning the heart of an artist named Olga, a woman he first fell in love with 20 years earlier, Mikuláš must now make a decision between her and his homeland.Mikuláš is an architect who has spent his career designing prefab high-rise apartment blocks in Prague, when his ... Read more

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    by Diane Ackerman ...
    2008 Orion Book AwardThe New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' ... Read more

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  • The Department of Missing Persons

    A Novel

    by Ruth Zylberman ...
    Translated by Grace McQuillan ...
    A startling debut novel about the burden of Holocaust memory and the implacable zest for life.Thirty-six years after her mother was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, the unnamed narrator lives a comfortable life in Paris. Her mother sees ghosts at every turn, longing to find the family that disappeared behind the miasma of the Holocaust, but she cannot reconcile her mother’s trauma to the cheery ... Read more

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  • Speak, Memory

    An Autobiography Revisited

    by Vladimir Nabokov ...
    Series series Vintage International
    From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. • "Scintillating … One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever." —The New York TimesSpeak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of ... Read more

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  • Time and Materials

    Poems 1997-2005

    by Robert Hass ...

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  • Too Loud a Solitude

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    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    A fable about the power of books and knowledge, "finely balanced between pathos and comedy," from one of Czechoslovakia's most popular authors ( Los Angeles Times).A New York Times Notable BookHaňtá has been compacting trash for thirty-five years. Every evening, he rescues books from the jaws of his hydraulic press, carries them home, and fills his house with them. Haňtá may be an idiot, as his ... Read more

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  • Visitation

    by Jenny Erpenbeck ...
    Translated by Susan Bernofsky ...
    A bestseller in Germany, Visitation has established Jenny Erpenbeck as one of Europe’s most significant contemporary authors.A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to the Weimar Republic, from World War II to the Socialist German Democratic ... Read more

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  • Parallel Stories

    A Novel

    by Péter Nádas ...
    A New York Times Notable Book for 2011In 1989, the year the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his morning run finds a corpse on a park bench and alerts the authorities. This scene opens a novel of extraordinary scope and depth, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans—Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies—across the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century.Three ... Read more

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  • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

    by Peter Handke ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    "My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide."So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost ... Read more

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  • The Life of an Unknown Man

    A Novel

    by Andreï Makine ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Strachan ...
    A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of Dreams of My Russian SummersIn The Life of an Unknown Man, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia's past and present.Shutov, a disenchanted writer, revisits St. Petersburg after twenty years of exile in Paris, hoping to recapture his youth. Instead, he meets Volsky, an old man who ... Read more

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  • Autobiography of a Corpse

    by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ...
    Translated by Joanne Turnbull ...
    An NYRB Classics OriginalWinner of the 2014 PEN Translation PrizeWinner of the 2014 Read Russia PrizeThe stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky’s most dazzling conceits: a provincial ... Read more

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  • The Art of the Wasted Day

    by Patricia Hampl ...
    **“A sharp and unconventional book — a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history's champion day-dreamers.” —Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air"A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream**The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who ... Read more

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