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Kaddish.com by Nathan Englander
Booksplease Price: £11.29Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. When his father dies, it's his responsibility to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. To... -
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Ruchama, a wigmaker from an ultra-orthodox Brooklyn enclave, journeys into Manhattan for inspiration, frequenting a newsstand where she flips through forbidden fashion magazines. An elderly Jew with... -
Dinner at the Centre of the Earth by Nathan Englander
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.39'One of our most consistently brilliant, bold and funny writers' Dave Eggers'His writing is liberal in every good sense of the word' Jonathan FranzenA spellbinding thriller. A spy novel. A love story... -
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander 9780375704444
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375704444Author Nathan EnglanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint
The Ministry of Special Cases Nathan Englander 9781474611114
Booksplease Price: £11.29Buenos Aires, 1970s. Kaddish Poznan chips the names off gravestones for a living, removing traces of disreputable ancestors for their more respectable kin. His wife Lillian works in insurance,...
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories by Nathan Englander 9780375704437
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Bard Fiction Prize 2002. Short-listed for National Jewish Book Award (Fiction) 1999 and Hemingway...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander 9780571394425
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99A viciously funny and intelligently provocative play about family, friendship and faith, adapted by the author from his Pulitzer-finalist short story.Who in your life would you trust to keep you...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank Nathan Englander 9781780222295
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89A FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD-winning, simply stunning short-story collection by one of America's most critically acclaimed young writers.From the up-and-coming young American writer who has contributed to...
Feeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Anyone) by Devorah Baum
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish-even when you're not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria...
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Etgar Keret is an ingenious and original master of the short story. Radical, witty and always unusual, declared a 'genius' by the New York Times, Keret brings all of his prodigious talent to bear in...
The Moth: This Is a True Story Catherine Burns 9781846689901
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26With an introduction by Neil Gaiman Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. The...
What to Do about the Solomons by Bethany Ball 9780802127853
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802127853Author Bethany BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint <
The World to Come: Stories Jim Shepard 9781786485069
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A fantastic writer - compassionate, funny and fearless' George Saunders'One of the US's finest writers' according to Joshua Ferris, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and...
The Moth - All These Wonders: 49 new true stories by The Moth
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26From storytelling phenomenon The Moth: a collection about risk, courage, and facing the unknown, drawn from the best stories ever told on their stages. All These Wonders features The Moth's...
Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture by Judith Ruderman
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64In Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture Judith Ruderman takes on the fraught question of who passes for Jewish in American literature and culture. In today's contemporary...
Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture by Judith Ruderman 9780253036964
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture Judith Ruderman takes on the fraught question of who passes for Jewish in American literature and culture. In today's contemporary...
The Wrong Heaven Amy Bonnaffons 9781474610230
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'Incredibly fun to read but also full of these frank and wise observations that stuck in my head long after' Aimee Bender, bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon CakeIn The Wrong...
Travel Writing by Peter Ferry 9780701181925
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Pete Ferry is driving home from work one evening when he sees a car swerving dangerously on the road. He wants to keep out of its way, so he allows it to overtake - but as it does so he sees that the...
Love and Exile by Isaac Bashevis Singer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From pre-First World War Warsaw to the New York of the 1930s, Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer traces the early years of his life in this autobiographical trilogy. In A Little Boy in Search...
The Penitent by Isaac Bashevis Singer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Penitent is the story of Joseph Shapiro, a disillusioned and aimless man who discovers a purpose to his life through the...
The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse by T. Carmi
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24This stunning anthology gathers together the riches of poetry in Hebrew from 'The Song of Deborah' to contemporary Israeli writings. Verse written up to the tenth century show the development of...
Letters from My Windmill by Alphonse Daudet 9780140443349
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Alphonse Daudet's novels established him as the most successful writer in France by the end of the XIX century; but it was the LETTERS, first published in book form in 1869, which remained his...![Under Enemy Colours: Charles Hayden Book 1 by Sean Thomas Russell 9780141033143 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9663986/10680706/9780141033143__51292.1781287115.jpg?c=1 "Under Enemy Colours: Charles Hayden Book 1 by Sean Thomas Russell 9780141033143 [USED COPY]")
Under Enemy Colours: Charles Hayden Book 1 by Sean Thomas Russell 9780141033143 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.401793: the thunder of cannon fire echoes across the English Channel, chilling the stoutest hearts . . .The opening skirmishes of the French Revolutionary War send ageing frigate HMS Themis into waters...
Under Enemy Colours: Charles Hayden Book 1 by Sean Thomas Russell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.231793: the thunder of cannon fire echoes across the English Channel, chilling the stoutest hearts . . .The opening skirmishes of the French Revolutionary War send ageing frigate HMS Themis into waters...![Train to Trieste by Domnica Radulescu 9780552774741 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9955881/10972348/9780552774741__22769.1786542850.jpg?c=1 "Train to Trieste by Domnica Radulescu 9780552774741 [USED COPY]")
Train to Trieste by Domnica Radulescu 9780552774741 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.96It is 1977 and seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu has fallen in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. She can think of nothing and no...
Memories of the Ford Administration by John Updike
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history...
You Are Not What We Expected by Sidura Ludwig
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26This stunningly intimate collection of stories is an exquisite portrait of a Jewish community - the secular and religious families who inhabit it and the tensions that exist there - that illuminates...
Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination: Negotiating Spaces and Identities by Efraim Sicher 9781032135069
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Offering a radical critique of contemporary Israeli and diaspora fiction by major writers of the generation after Amos Oz and Philip Roth, this book asks searching questions about identity formation...
Affiliated Identities in Jewish American Literature by David Hadar 9781501360916
Booksplease Price: £102.21Focusing on relationships between Jewish American authors and Jewish authors elsewhere in America, Europe, and Israel, this book explores the phenomenon of authorial affiliation: the ways in which...
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Tony Kushner 9780802140159
Booksplease Price: £14.79As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict escalates, a dangerous illusion persists that the American Jewish community speaks with a single voice, expressing universal, uncritical support for the policies...
Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative by Derek Parker Royal
Booksplease Price: £46.13Focusing on a diversely rich selection of writers, the pieces featured in Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative explore the community of Jewish...
Magical American Jew: The Enigma of Difference in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film by Aaron Tillman 9781498565028
Booksplease Price: £85.65Efforts to describe contemporary Jewish American identities often reveal more questions than concrete articulations, more statements about what Jewish Americans are not than what they are...
The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction by Victoria Aarons 9780814340554
Booksplease Price: £32.69The Edward Lewis Wallant Award was founded by the family of Dr. Irving and Fran Waltman in 1963 and is supported by the University of Hartford's Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. It is...
Inheritance by Kerry-Lee Powell 9781927428795
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"Powerful ...full of dark nostalgia."--Nathan Englander The Lifeboat All night in his lifeboat my father sang to keep the voices of the other men who cried in the wreckage from reaching him, he...
Lowboy John Wray 9781847671523
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Underground, in the tunnels beneath New York, a young man is missing.Above ground, Ali Lateef of the NYPD is assigned the case. The boy's mother is reluctant to help and Emily, his girlfriend and...
The Novel of Human Rights by James Dawes
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £31.82The Novel of Human Rights defines a new, dynamic American literary genre. It incorporates key debates within the contemporary human rights movement in the United States, and in turn influences the...
Astra Magazine, Ecstasy: Issue One by Nadja Spiegelman
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.95Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and...
American Innovations by Rivka Galchen 9780007548774
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.74A short-story collection from one of America's brightest young talents. In one of these intensely imaginative stories a young woman's furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator...
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen 9780007276851
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.74'Last December, a woman entered my apartment who looked exactly like my wife...' Dr Leo Liebenstein is convinced that his wife has disappeared and that she has been replaced by a double. ...
Astra Magazine, Filth: Issue Two by Nadja Spiegelman
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.81Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and...