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An Armenian Sketchbook

6 best books like An Armenian Sketchbook (Vasily Grossman): Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak, Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life, A Small Place in Italy, The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians, Fair Play

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
AuthorPeter Pomerantsev
ISBN1610394550
In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show.

Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell’s Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and oligarch revolutionaries: welcome...
Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
AuthorJean Hatzfeld
ISBN0312425031
During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war. Several years later, journalist Jean Hatzfeld traveled to Rwanda to interview ten participants in the killings, eliciting extraordinary testimony...
Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life
AuthorGillian Rose
ISBN0805210784
A devastating confrontation with mortality leads Gillian Rose, one of England's most distinguished thinkers, to illuminate the deepest issues of our lives: love, friendship, sex, illness, and death. Rose's crisis gives her search the force of immediacy and intimacy; her willingness to face life...
A Small Place in Italy
AuthorEric Newby
ISBN0864426054
In 1967 Eric and Wanda Newby fulfilled a long-cherished dream when they bought a run-down farmhouse in northern Tuscany, in the foothills of the Italian Alps. They were the first foreigners to live in the region. "A Small Place in Italy" describes how the house was restored with the help of their neighbors,...
The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians
AuthorPhilip Marsden
ISBN0006376673
After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it. With a name redolent both of dim antiquity and of a modern world and its tensions, the Armenians founded a civilization and underwent a diaspora that brought many of the great ideas...
Fair Play
AuthorTove Jansson
ISBN0954899539
Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation

Fair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating. 

Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their...
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