All The Emperor's Horses
8 best books like All The Emperor's Horses (David Kidd): Trust Exercise, De avonden, The Woman in the White Kimono, The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity, Fierce Attachments: A Memoir, Im Frühling sterben, The Far Side of the Sky, Die Kieferninseln
| Author | Susan Choi |
| ISBN | 1250309883 |
Pulitzer Finalist Susan Choi's narrative-upending novel about what happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic teacher
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle...
De Avonden vertelt het verhaal van Frits van Egters, die in de donkere decemberdagen van vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog zich een houding probeert te geven tegenover zijn ouders en vrienden. Over alles ligt een grijze waas van melancholie, en met zijn eigenzinnige gevoel voor humor probeert hij door...
The Woman in the White Kimono
| Author | Ana Johns |
| ISBN | 0778308146 |
Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them.
Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage to the son of her father’s business associate would secure her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community,...
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
| Author | Kwame Anthony Appiah |
Who do you think you are? That’s a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self, and shape our polarized world. Yet the collective identities they spawn are riddled with contradictions,...
| Author | Vivian Gornick |
| ISBN | 0374529965 |
In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking...
| Author | Ralf Rothmann |
| ISBN | 3518424750 |
»Sprach ich meinen Vater in der Kindheit auf sein starkes Haar an, sagte er, das komme vom Krieg; man habe sich täglich frischen Birkensaft in die Kopfhaut gerieben. Ich fragte nicht weiter nach, hätte wohl auch, wie so oft, wenn es um die Zeit ging, keine genauere Antwort bekommen. Die stellte sich...
| Author | Daniel Kalla |
| ISBN | 0765332337 |
November 9, 1938: Kristallnacht, the Nazis unleash a night of terror for Jews all across Germany. Meanwhile, the Japanese Imperial Army rampages through China and tightens its stranglehold on Shanghai, a city that becomes the last haven for thousands of desperate European Jews.
Dr. Franz Adler,...
| Author | Marion Poschmann |
| ISBN | 3518427601 |
Gilbert Silvester, Privatdozent und Bartforscher im Rahmen eines universitären Drittmittelprojekts, steht unter Schock. Letzte Nacht hat er geträumt, dass seine Frau ihn betrügt. In einer absurden Kurzschlusshandlung verlässt er sie, steigt ins erstbeste Flugzeug und reist nach Japan,...
