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"With echoes of Kafka and Conrad," the acclaimed Israeli author of Castle in Spain offers "a provocative, spare, slow-to-unfold mystery of character" ( Kirkus Reviews).On the day of his forty-first birthday, Israeli secret agent Alexander Abramov encounters a beautiful young redhead on a city bus. He immediately recognizes her as the woman he has been searching for all his life, the one he has ... Read more

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"With echoes of Kafka and Conrad," the acclaimed Israeli author of Castle in Spain offers "a provocative, spare, slow-to-unfold mystery of character" ( Kirkus Reviews).On the day of his forty-first birthday, Israeli secret agent Alexander Abramov encounters a beautiful young redhead on a city bus. He immediately recognizes her as the woman he has been searching for all his life, the one he has
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The Best Place On Earth

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Winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish LiteratureConfident, original and humane, the stories in The Best Place on Earth are peopled with characters at the crossroads of nationalities, religions and communities: expatriates, travellers, immigrants and locals.In the powerfully affecting opening story, “Tikkun,” a chance meeting between a man and his former lover carries them through near tragedy ... Read more

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Winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish LiteratureConfident, original and humane, the stories in The Best Place on Earth are peopled with characters at the crossroads of nationalities, religions and communities: expatriates, travellers, immigrants and locals.In the powerfully affecting opening story, “Tikkun,” a chance meeting between a man and his former lover carries them through near tragedy
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WINNER OF THE CANADIAN JEWISH LITERARY AWARD FOR MEMOIRFINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONAn unforgettable memoir about a young woman who tries to outrun loss, but eventually finds a way home.Ayelet Tsabari was 21 years old the first time she left Tel Aviv with no plans to return. Restless after two turbulent mandatory years in the Israel Defense Forces, Tsabari ... Read more

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2014 Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteraturePatrick Modiano opens Dora Bruder by telling how in 1988 he stumbled across an ad in the personal columns of the New Year's Eve 1941 edition of Paris Soir. Placed by the parents of a 15-year-old Jewish girl, Dora Bruder, who had run away from her Catholic boarding school, the ad sets Modiano off on a quest to find out everything he can about Dora and why ... Read more

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Two Israeli sisters, one struggling with her marriage and the other finally settling into a steady relationship, reunite in British Columbia and rediscover their connection.Confident, original and humane, the stories in The Best Place on Earth are peopled with characters at the crossroads of nationalities, religions and communities: expatriates, travellers, immigrants and locals. In illustrating ... Read more

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Love and Treasure

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"Computer science and medieval philosophy mesh in [this] accomplished novel about digital dangers and the nature of memory." —Barbara Kiser, NatureBooklist Editors' Choice"Intricate and suspenseful. . . . An elegant and brainy page-turner from a master storyteller." —Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Caleb's Crossing... ... Read more

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A dark and surreal collection of stories from the author of The Nimrod Flipout and The Girl on the Fridge."Keret's greatest book yet—the most funny, dark, and poignant. It's tempting to say these stories are his most Kafkaesque, but in fact they are his most Keretesque." —Jonathan Safran FoerBringing up a child, lying to the boss, placing an order in a fast-food restaur...
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