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The Lair by Norman Manea
Booksplease Price: £9.55Now available for the first time in English, Manea's acclaimed novel of emigres in America, free yet imprisoned by the past Norman Manea, Romania's most famous contemporary author, twice has survived... -
Captives by Norman Manea 9780811220477
Booksplease Price: £12.55Captives, the acclaimed writer Norman Manea's first novel, is a fascinating, kaleidoscopic, and imaginative look into postwar Romania. Divided into three sections-narrated in first-, second-, and... -
Exiled Shadow by Norman Manea 9780300265729
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92A virtuoso collage novel about narrative, identity, and exile, from international literary sensation Norman Manea "One of the most eloquent living witnesses of the European 20th century, Norman... -
The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir by Norman Manea 9780300197808
Booksplease Price: £48.26Romanian exile Norman Manea's internationally acclaimed memoir/novel, now available to English-language readers At the center of The Hooligan's Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a... -
October, Eight o'Clock by Norman Manea 9780802133717
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.59Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Norman Manea: Aesthetics as East Ethics by Claudiu Turcus 9783631669129
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £55.39The book offers the very first critical biography on Norman Manea, a widely respected writer and multiple Nobel Prize Nominee. It follows two main objectives: an aesthetic interpretation of his... -
Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust by Valentina Glajar 9781349294510
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book explores the memory of the Romanian Holocaust in Romanian, German, Israeli, and French cultural representations. The essays in this volume discuss first-hand testimonial accounts, letters,... -
Culture and Civilization: Volume 3, Globalism by Irving Louis Horowitz
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Volume three of Culture & Civilization continues a pattern in this annual series of dealing with major themes of the past, with a strong sense of how the everyday world of the second decade of the... -
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible by Robert Alter
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.61The simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded American culture from the beginning - and its powerful eloquence continues to be felt even today. In this book, acclaimed biblical... -
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... -
Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust by Jeanine Teodorescu 9780230112544
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book explores the memory of the Romanian Holocaust in Romanian, German, Israeli, and French cultural representations. The essays in this volume discuss first-hand testimonial accounts, letters,... -
German Jews in Palestine, 1920-1948: Between Dream and Reality by Claudia Sonino 9781498540308
Booksplease Price: £86.43With an approach both personal and symbolic, this volume leads us through the imagined worlds, delusions, discoveries, questions, hopes, ambivalences, anxieties, and historical, cultural and... -
Adventures In Immediate Irreality by Max Blecher
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.23Adventures in Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of the Romanian writer Max Blecher, vividly paints the crises of "irreality" that plagued him in his youth: eerie and unsettling mirages wherein he... -
Romanian Capitalism on Film: Microhistories of Hope, Anxiety and Adaptation Constantin Parvulescu 9781399540162
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £86.61Romanian Capitalism on Screen examines contemporary Romanian cinema as a testimony to pivotal aspects of Romania's postsocialist economy and culture. It complements existing accounts of economic and... -
Maimonides: Faith in Reason by Alberto Manguel
Booksplease Price: £17.67An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world's foremost bibliophiles Moses ben Maimon, or... -
European Writers in Exile by Robert C. Hauhart 9781498560238
Booksplease Price: £112.43European Writers in Exile collects a series of original essays that address the writers' universal existential dilemma, when viewed through the lens of exile: who am I, where am I from, and what do I... -
Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years by Mihail Sebastian 9781442220249
Booksplease Price: £52.04Hailed as one of the most important portrayals of the dark years of Nazism, this powerful chronicle by the Romanian Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian aroused a furious response in Eastern Europe when it... -
Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers by Costica Bradatan
Booksplease Price: £16.21What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your ideas and die or... -
Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers by Costica Bradatan 9781472525512
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £44.90What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your ideas and die or... -
18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages by Nora Gold 9798887192055
RRP: £43.82Booksplease Price: £31.77A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies CategoryThis anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects eighteen astounding works of Jewish fiction.This is... -
18: Jewish Stories from Around the World, Translated from 18 Languages by Nora Gold 9798887192062
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.30A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies Category This anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects eighteen astounding works of Jewish fiction. This is...