Dubin's Lives
8 best books like Dubin's Lives (Bernard Malamud): Corelli's Mandolin, Birds Without Wings, Mephisto, A Crown of Feathers, Professor Unrat, An Ice-Cream War, A Friend of Kafka, Job
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is set in the early days of the second world war, before Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. Dr Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he imparts much of his healing art. Even when the Italians do invade, life isn’t...
| Author | Louis de Bernières |
| ISBN | 1400079322 |
In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman...
| Author | Klaus Mann |
| ISBN | 0140189181 |
Klaus Mann - Thomas Mann’s son - wrote MEPHISTO while living in exile from the Germany of World War II. In it he captures the Isherwood-like atmosphere of Nazi Germany while telling a satiric story about the rise to power of one man - a thinly veiled caricature of his own brother-in-law. The man is Hendrik...
| Author | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| ISBN | 0374516243 |
It's been nearly 30 years since I last looked at this excellent collection of short stories, but some of them still visit my thoughts regularly. My favorite is the guy who seduces his neighbor by turning up in her bedroom one night and saying that he's a demon from Hell. It's pitch black, and she's not sure...
| Author | Heinrich Mann |
| ISBN | 3499100355 |
Der vorliegende Roman gilt neben Heinrich Manns Werk "Die kleine Stadt" als eine der besten Schöpfungen aus der Frühzeit des Dichters. Er erschien erstmalig im Jahre 1905 und schildert die makabre Geschichte eines professoralen Gymnasiastenschrecks, einer Spießerexistenz, die in später...
| Author | William Boyd |
| ISBN | 0375705023 |
An Ice-Cream War was the debut novel of William Boyd who would go on to be recognized as 'the finest storyteller of his generation' (Sebastian Faulks). It follows the fortunes of several wildly different characters - including an expat farmer and a young English aristocrat - as they are swept up in the...
| Author | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| ISBN | 0374515387 |
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| Author | Joseph Roth |
| ISBN | 1585673749 |
Thaumaturgy: A Philosophy of Blessings and Curses
For those who do not live solely in a scientific universe of mechanical rationality, the world is enchanted. It is filled with forces which have personality and therefore might be appealed to for deliverance or assistance. In the monotheistic...
