Fanny Von Arnstein Daughter Of The Enlightenment
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Fanny Von Arnstein Daughter Of The Enlightenment
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Author : Hilde Spiel
language : en
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Release Date : 2013-09-15
Fanny Von Arnstein Daughter Of The Enlightenment written by Hilde Spiel and has been published by New Vessel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Berlin-born Fanny von Arnstein married a financier to the Austro-Hungarian imperial court, and in 1798 her husband became the first unconverted Jew in Austria to be granted the title of baron. Soon Fanny hosted an ever more splendid salon which attracted the leading figures of her day, including Madame de Staël and Arthur Schopenhauer. Hilde Spiel's biography provides a vivid portrait of a brave and passionate woman, illuminating a central era in European cultural and social history. "Von Arnstein represents one of the most fascinating and paradoxical eras in modern Jewish history ... For an American Jewish reader, Fanny von Arnstein is fascinating above all as a cautionary tale — and a reminder of our luck at having avoided the excruciating choices that Fanny, and so many Jews like her, had to face." - Adam Kirsch, Tablet Magazine “This book is indispensable for those interested in the history of culture, the role of women, and the transition of the Jewish community out of the ghetto toward the center of European life.” - Leon Botstein, President of Bard College, author of Judentum und Modernität and co-editor of Vienna: Jews and the City of Music “In capturing the fascination of Fanny von Arnstein and her times, Hilde Spiel provides both a finely drawn portrait of a defining figure of her era, but also of the times themselves.” - John Kornblum, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany
Fanny Von Arnstein
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Author : Hilde Spiel
language : en
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Release Date : 1991
Fanny Von Arnstein written by Hilde Spiel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Jews categories.
The Missing Year Of Juan Salvatierra
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Author : Pedro Mairal
language : en
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Release Date : 2013-07-15
The Missing Year Of Juan Salvatierra written by Pedro Mairal and has been published by New Vessel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-15 with Fiction categories.
At the age of nine, Juan Salvatierra became mute following a horse riding accident. At twenty, he began secretly painting a series of long rolls of canvas in which he minutely detailed six decades of life in his village on Argentina’s river frontier with Uruguay. After the death of Salvatierra, his sons return to the village from Buenos Aires to deal with their inheritance: a shed packed with painted rolls of canvas stretching over two miles in length and depicting personal and communal history. Museum curators from Europe come calling to acquire this strange, gargantuan artwork. But an essential roll is missing. A search ensues that illuminates the links between art and life, as an intrigue of family secrets buried in the past cast their shadows on the present.
I Called Him Necktie
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Author : Milena Michiko Flašar
language : en
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Release Date : 2014-09-09
I Called Him Necktie written by Milena Michiko Flašar and has been published by New Vessel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-09 with Fiction categories.
Twenty-year-old Taguchi Hiro has spent the last two years of his life living as a hikikomori—a shut-in who never leaves his room and has no human interaction—in his parents’ home in Tokyo. As Hiro tentatively decides to reenter the world, he spends his days observing life around him from a park bench. Gradually he makes friends with Ohara Tetsu, a middle-aged salaryman who has lost his job but can’t bring himself to tell his wife, and shows up every day in a suit and tie to pass the time on a nearby bench. As Hiro and Tetsu cautiously open up to each other, they discover in their sadness a common bond. Regrets and disappointments, as well as hopes and dreams, come to the surface until both find the strength to somehow give a new start to their lives. This beautiful novel is moving, unforgettable, and full of surprises. The reader turns the last page feeling that a small triumph has occurred.
A Very French Christmas
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Author : Guy de Maupassant
language : en
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Release Date : 2017-10-10
A Very French Christmas written by Guy de Maupassant and has been published by New Vessel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with Fiction categories.
Joyeux Noël: “[An]endearing collection of Christmas stories from ten of France’s most esteemed writers―past and present―skillfully translated.” ―Foreword Reviews This collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time, featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century authors Irène Némirovsky and Nobel Prize winner Anatole France and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel. With a holiday spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, homesick soldiers, oysters, crayfish, ham, bonbons, flickering desire, and more than a little wine, this collection encapsulates Christmas à la française—delicious, intense and unexpected.
Some Day
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Author : Shemi Zarhin
language : en
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Release Date : 2013-10-15
Some Day written by Shemi Zarhin and has been published by New Vessel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with Fiction categories.
On the shores of Israel’s Sea of Galilee lies the city of Tiberias, a place bursting with sexuality and longing for love. The air is saturated with smells of cooking and passion. Seven-year-old Shlomi, who develops a remarkable culinary talent, has fallen for Ella, the strange girl next door with suicidal tendencies; his little brother Hilik obsessively collects words in a notebook. In the wild, selfish but magical grown-up world that swirls around them, a mother with a poet’s soul mourns the deaths of literary giants while her handsome, wayward husband cheats on her both at home and abroad. Some Day is a gripping family saga, a sensual and emotional feast that plays out over decades. The characters find themselves caught in cycles of repetition, as if they were “rhymes in a poem, cursed with history.” They become victims of inspired recipes that bring joy and calamity to the cooks and diners. Mysterious curses cause people’s hair to fall out, their necks to swell and the elimination of rational thought amid capitulation to unhealthy urges. This is an enchanting tale about tragic fates that disrupt families and break our hearts. Zarhin’s hypnotic writing renders a painfully delicious vision of individual lives behind Israel’s larger national story.
The 6 41 To Paris
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Author : Jean-Philippe Blondel
language : en
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Release Date : 2015-11-10
The 6 41 To Paris written by Jean-Philippe Blondel and has been published by New Vessel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-10 with Fiction categories.
Brilliant psychological thriller constructed like an intensely intimate theater performance, a high-wire act of emotions on rails.
On The Run With Mary
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Author : Jonathan Barrow
language : en
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Release Date : 2015-11-02
On The Run With Mary written by Jonathan Barrow and has been published by New Vessel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-02 with Fiction categories.
“One of the most extraordinary, original—and funniest—books I have ever read. Subversive, satirical, like a farcical, erotic, animal-human animated film” (Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, author of Kinsey: Sex the Measure of All Things). Shining moments of tender beauty punctuate this story of a youth on the run after escaping from an elite English boarding school. At London’s Euston Station, the narrator meets a talking dachshund named Mary and together they’re off on escapades through posh Mayfair streets and jaunts in a Rolls-Royce. But the youth soon realizes the seemingly sweet dog is a handful; an alcoholic, nymphomaniac, drug-addicted mess who can’t stay out of pubs or off the dance floor. In a world of abusive headmasters and other predators, the sexually omnivorous youth discovers that true friends are never needed more than on the mean streets of 1960s London, as he tries to save his beloved Mary from herself. On the Run with Mary mirrors the horrors and the joys of the terrible twentieth century. Jonathan Barrow’s original drawings accompany the text. “A masterpiece by a young genius, fated to die shortly after he had completed it.” —A. N. Wilson, author of Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy “A unique masterpiece from a bizarre mind. To say it’s Lewis Carroll meets Jean Genet . . . would be to belittle its farcically-filthy originality.” —Nicholas Haslam, author of Redeeming Features “Dementedly cheerful . . . A rollicking catalogue of sex, violence, and acts of cartoonish cruelty, Barrow’s novel is a schoolboy’s happy nightmare writ large; readers may find it impossible to look away.” —Publishers Weekly
Who Is Martha
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Author : Marjana Gaponenko
language : en
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Release Date : 2014-09-15
Who Is Martha written by Marjana Gaponenko and has been published by New Vessel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-15 with Fiction categories.
“Vividly drawn characters, history, music, birds, love, loneliness, and wisdom . . . A brilliant book, rich and satisfying as a Viennese torte” (Sy Montgomery, author of Birdology). In this poignant yet rollicking novel, ninety-six-year-old ornithologist Luka Levadski forgoes treatment for lung cancer and moves from Ukraine to Vienna to make a grand exit in a luxury suite at the Hotel Imperial. He reflects on his past while indulging in Viennese cakes and savoring music in a gilded concert hall. Levadski was born in 1914, the same year that Martha—the last of the now-extinct passenger pigeons—died. Levadski too has an acute sense of being the last of a species. He may have devoted much of his existence to studying birds, but now he befriends a hotel butler and another elderly guest, who also doesn’t have much time left, to share in the lively escapades of his final days. This gloriously written tale is “a book like a fantastic party, as unshakeable as a child’s faith [that] astonishes to the very end” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung).
A Very Russian Christmas
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Author : Mikhail Zoshchenko
language : en
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Release Date : 2016-09-26
A Very Russian Christmas written by Mikhail Zoshchenko and has been published by New Vessel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-26 with Fiction categories.
A collection of short Christmas stories by some of Russia’s greatest nineteenth and twentieth century authors—several appearing in English for the first time. Running the gamut from sweet and reverent to twisted and uproarious, this collection offers a holiday feast of Russian fiction. Dostoevsky brings stories of poverty and tragedy; Tolstoy inspires with his fable-like tales; Chekhov’s unmatchable skills are on full display in his story of a female factory owner and her wretched workers; Klaudia Lukashevitch delights with a sweet and surprising tale of a childhood in White Russia; and Mikhail Zoshchenko recounts madcap anecdotes of Christmas trees and Christmas thieves in the Soviet Era—a time when it was illegal to celebrate the holiday in Russia. There is no shortage of imagination, wit, or vodka on display in this collection that proves, with its wonderful variety and remarkable human touch, that nobody does Christmas like the Russians.