Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
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Jonathan Safran Foer
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Literary Fiction
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Houghton Mifflin (April 16, 2002) |
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis
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For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories
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Nathan Englander
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Literary Fiction
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Short Stories
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Knopf; 1st ed edition (March 16, 1999) |
Debut collection of stories exploring the collision of Jewish law and tradition with secular realities
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The Dew Breaker
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Edwidge Danticat
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Literary Fiction
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Historical Fiction
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Knopf; 1st edition (March 9, 2004) |
A moving work of fiction that explores the world of a “dew breaker”—a torturer—a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality
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The Great Inland Sea
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David Francis
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Literary Fiction
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MacAdam/Cage Publishing; Reprint edition (April 10, 2006) |
The twisted relationship between a jockey and the horse jumper--who becomes the object of his obsession--frames this dark, brooding debut, which traces the path of the would-be lovers as they pursue careers in 1950s East Coast horse culture.
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Nowhere Man
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Aleksandar Hemon
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Literary Fiction
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Picador; New Ed edition (July 2, 2004) |
Jozef Pronek, the quirky Sarajevan who captured the imagination of readers in Hemon's acclaimed story collection (The Question of Bruno), gets full-length treatment in this novel as we plunge into the inner world of the observant Pronek
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Animal Crackers
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Hannah Tinti
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Literary Fiction
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Short Stories
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Offbeat/Quirky
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Headline Review; New Ed edition (March 7, 2005) |
In 11 highly original, sometimes gorgeous stories, animals play the starring roles with the symbolic significance of all that is peculiar, cruel and loving in their human counterparts
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The Ladies Auxiliary
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Tova Mirvis
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Literary Fiction
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Ballantine Books (September 5, 2000) |
Set in the tightly knit Orthodox Jewish community of Memphis, TN, a social structure that unravels when an unconventional New York convert settles there with her five-year-old daughter
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