Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth explores the heart of family life and the immigrant experience. Eight luminous stories - longer and richer than any Jhumpa Lahiri has yet written - take us from America to Europe, India and Thailand as they follow new lives forged in the wake of loss.
Brothers Subhash and Udayan pursue different lives--Udayan in rebellion-torn Calcutta, Subhash in a quiet corner of America--until a shattering tragedy compels Subhash to return to India, where he tries to heal family wounds.
When The Renowned Aviation Hero And Rabid Isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh Defeated Franklin Roosevelt By A Landslide In The 1940 Presidential Election, Fear Invaded Every Jewish Household In America. Not Only Had Lindbergh Publicly Blamed The Jews For Pushing America Toward A Pointless War With Nazi Germany, But Upon Taking Office As The Thirty-Third President Of The United States, He Negotiated A Cordial 'Understanding' With Adolf Hitler. What Then Followed In America Is The Historical Setting For This Startling New Book By Pulitzer Prize-Winner Philip Roth, Who Recounts What It Was Like For His Newark Family - And For A Million Such Families All Over The Country - During The Menacing Years Of The Lindbergh Presidency, When American Citizens Who Happened To Be Jews Had Every Reason To Expect The Worst.
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There is no more decorated American writer living today than Philip Roth, the New York Times best-selling author of American Pastoral, The Human Stain, and The Plot Against America. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, and numerous other distinctions. The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm 34! Worry about oblivion when you're 75." But he cannot help himself. He is the ex-husband in three marriages gone wrong. He is the father of two sons who detest him, despite a daughter who adores him. And as his health worsens, he is the envious brother of a much fitter man. A masterful portrait of one man's inner struggles, Everyman is a brilliant showcase for one of the world's most distinguished novelists.
From Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, a stirring and explosive debut novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world. Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes. American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.
Satirische roman over de bewoners van een exclusieve buitenwijk van San Francisco, die allerlei geestelijke alternatieven tegenover hun materiële welvaart trachten te stellen.
Na zijn dood zwerft een joodse man door zijn vroegere omgeving en gaat samen met talloze andere doden uit een massagraf in Polen op zoek naar de eeuwige rust.
