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Time by Eva Hoffman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Time has always been the great Given, a fact of existence which cannot be denied or wished away; but the character of lived time is changing dramatically. Medical advances extend our longevity, while... -
How to Be Bored by Eva Hoffman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Lethargic inactivity can be debilitating and depressing; but for those living in the modern world, the pendulum has swung far in the other direction. We live in a hectic, hyperactive, over-stimulated... -
How to Be Bored by Eva Hoffman 9781250078674
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250078674Author Eva HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Lost In Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption,... -
After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust by Eva Hoffman
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.31As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others?... -
On Czeslaw Milosz: Visions from the Other Europe by Eva Hoffman 9780691212692
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.05A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Czeslaw Milosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva HoffmanCzeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was a... -
Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe by Eva Hoffman 9780571259007
Booksplease Price: £17.21'A book that takes you on an intimate journey through Eastern Europe at a time when the dust was still settling from the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Eva Hoffman travels from the Baltic to the Black... -
Parshah Themes in Historical Perspective by Rabbi Evan Hoffman
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £30.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657023402Author Rabbi Evan HoffmanPage Count 628Imprint -
George Soros: A Life In Full Peter L. W. Osnos 9781647822798
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.80A compelling new picture of one of the most important, complex, and misunderstood figures of our time.The name George Soros is recognized around the world. Universally known for his decades of... -
Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Locating Ourselves Julia Beltsiou (private practice in New York City, USA) 9780415741828
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Locating Ourselves presents a unique approach to understanding the varied and multi-layered experience of immigration, exploring how social, cultural, political, and... -
Lives in Two Languages: An Exploration of Identity and Culture by Linda Watkins-Goffman
Booksplease Price: £30.42Lives in Two Languages explores identity and multiculturalism through readings that aim to help teachers-in-training gain better insight into their students' lives.Lives in Two Languages focuses on... -
Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2001 by Nicholas Owen
Booksplease Price: £29.51This edited collection, based on the 2001 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, focuses on human rights abuses and the way in which these are interpreted. The contributors are Tzvetan Todorov, Michael Ignatieff,... -
Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile, And The Logic Of Difference by Katarzyna Marciniak 9780816645770
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24"Alien" has a double meaning in the United States, suggesting both "foreigner" and "extraterrestrial creature." In Alienhood, Katarzyna Marciniak explores this semantic duality. Interrogating the... -
Transatlantic Women's Literature by Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.01Transatlantic Women's Literature is a valuable contribution to the evolving debate surrounding Transatlantic Studies and transatlantic literature. Its originality and importance lie in its focus on... -
Osnabruck Station to Jerusalem by Helene Cixous
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £55.00An inventive literary account of Cixous's remarkable journey to her mother's birthplace Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation For about eighty years, the Jonas... -
In Babel's Shadow: Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States by Brian Lennon 9780816665020
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Multilingual literature defies simple translation. Beginning with this insight, Brian Lennon examines the resistance multilingual literature offers to book publication itself. In readings of G. V... -
The Flood: A Novel by Carol Ascher
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £11.83Nine-year-old Eva Hoffman is the daughter of Austrian Jewish refugees who have found a precarious safety among a small community of European exiles attached to a psychoanalytic hospital in Topeka,... -
Critical Muslim 12: Dangerous Freethinkers by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88Ziauddin Sardar argues that free thinkers are essential for any culture to survive and thrive; Aziz al-Azmeh outlines how Abbasid Culture established freethinking humanism; Oliver Leaman highlights... -
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - Their Untold Story by Judy Batalion
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.25A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power' Philippe Sands'A fascinating history about a little-known group who took on the Nazis . . . The... -
Postmemory, Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Ghosts: The Salonica Cohen Family and Trauma Across Generations Rony Alfandary (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) 9780367491741
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Through the collection of letters sent by members of a Jewish family between 1923 and 1942, this fascinating book explores phenomenological and psychoanalytical aspects of the Holocaust and its... -
Love's Executioner by Irvin D. Yalom
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Love's Executioner offers us the humane and extraordinary insight of renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom into the lives of ten of his patients - and through them into the minds of us allWhy was Saul... -
The Writer Uprooted: Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature by Alvin H. Rosenfeld
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24The Writer Uprooted is the first book to examine the emergence of a new generation of Jewish immigrant authors in America, most of whom grew up in formerly communist countries. In essays that are... -
City of Lions by Jozef Wittlin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Lviv, Lwow, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during its history, it is a city located along the fault-lines of... -
Conversations with Glenn Gould by Jonathan Cott
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.88One of the most idiosyncratic and charismatic musicians of the twentieth century, pianist Glenn Gould (1932-82) slouched at the piano from a sawed-down wooden stool, interpreting Bach, Beethoven, and... -
The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe Marek Kohn 9780300281064
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.91A journey through Europe's old towns, exploring why we treasure them-but also what they hide about a continent's fraught history "[A] fascinating chronicle."-Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal ... -
Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self by Julie Sedivy 9780674293939
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £14.19"At once an eloquent memoir, a wide-ranging commentary on cultural diversity, and an expert distillation of the research on language learning, loss, and recovery."-The Economist"Insightful and... -
Ru by Kim Thuy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, money. Kim Thuy's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the... -
Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft by Professor Steven G. Kellman
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.68Though it is difficult enough to write well in one's native tongue, an extraordinary group of authors has written enduring poetry and prose in a second, third, or even fourth language. Switching... -
Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory by Marianne Hirsch
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past. Rites of Return examines the effects of this legacy of historical injustice and documented... -
Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory by Marianne Hirsch 9780231150903
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £106.50The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past. Rites of Return examines the effects of this legacy of historical injustice and documented... -
Trans-Atlantyk: An Alternate Translation by Danuta Borchardt
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05A brilliant, semiautobiographical satirical novel from one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century Polish literature, now in a new English translation Considered by many to be among the greatest... -
Gorsky by Vesna Goldsworthy 9781784700706
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.79Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction'Captivating' Sunday Times'Glittering' Sunday ExpressLondon dances to the tune of Gorsky's billions.The most enigmatic of oligarchs, Gorsky desires... -
Judas Amos Oz 9781784701956
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The Israeli master's exceptional final novelSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 Shmuel - a young, idealistic student - has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem, taking a live-in job... -
The Multilingual Self: An Inquiry Into Language Learning Natasha Lvovich 9780805823202
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This book relates the author's stories about how languages have integrated her being, and defined and formed her sense of self. The idea of writing autobiographical stories of her multilingual life... -
We Are All From Somewhere Else: Migration and Survival in Poetry and Prose by Ruth Padel
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46*First published as The Mara Crossing, now with new and updated material*'A prodigy, a book of wonders. Wonder, pity and terror, the searing section of voices in transit coercing compassion - and... -
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - A New York Times Bestseller by Judy Batalion
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02One of the most important untold stories of World War II, The Light of Days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who inspired... -
Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past by Jonathan D. Jansen 9780804761949
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44This book tells the story of white South African students-how they remember and enact an Apartheid past they were never part of. How is it that young Afrikaners, born at the time of Mandela's release... -
The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust by Marianne Hirsch
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.86Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them... -
Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past by Jonathan D. Jansen 9780804761956
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01This book tells the story of white South African students-how they remember and enact an Apartheid past they were never part of. How is it that young Afrikaners, born at the time of Mandela's release... -
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War by Ian Buruma
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Ian Buruma's maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still at...