A new collection of short fiction by the critically lauded author of Nosferatur encompasses both previously unpublished stories, as well as selections from The New Yorker, Playboy, and other magazines and fourteen works from Batting Against Castro and other anthologies. Original. 20,000 first printi[...]
A rediscovered masterpiece: an unblinking view of the Holocaust through a child's eyes
Told from the perspective of a child slowly awakening to the atrocities surrounding him, "Childhood "is a searing story of the Holocaust that no reader will soon forget. As five-year-old Jona waits with his m[...]
Culling the vastness of experienceâfrom its bizarre fringes and breathtaking pinnacles to the mediocre and desperately below averageâlike an expert curator, Jim Shepard populates this collection with characters at once wildly diverse and wholly fascinating.
A âblack world�[...]
Following "Like You'd Understand, Anyway"--awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award--Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience--from its bizarre f[...]
The acclaimed National Book Award finalist one of the United States finest writers, according to Joshua Ferris, full of wit, humanity, and fearless curiosity now gives us a novel that will join the short list of classics about children caught up in the Holocaust.
Aron, the narrator, is an engag[...]
n the wilderness of junior high, Edwin Hanratty is at the bottom of the food chain. His teachers find him a nuisance. His fellow students consider him prey. And although his parents are not oblivious to his troubles, they can't quite bring themselves to fathom the ruthless forces that demoralize him[...]
Arons bok är en mästerlig roman om Warszawas getto, sett ur ett barns ögon. Det är en fascinerande, hjärtskärande och - trots allt - bitvis komisk berättelse som kommer att bli en av förintelselitteraturens framtida klassiker. Aron är en egensinnig pojke som tillsammans med sin familj förs[...]