My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War
8 best books like My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War (Anne Sinclair): Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings, Homesick for Another World, The Artificial Silk Girl, The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe, Paradiso, Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell, How the Light Gets In, Changer l'eau des fleurs
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
| Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
| ISBN | 0811200124 |
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original and significant figures in modern literature. In his preface, Andre Maurois writes: "Borges is a great writer who has composed only...
Homesick for Another World
| Author | Ottessa Moshfegh |
| ISBN | 0399562885 |
An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time.
There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady...
| Author | Irmgard Keun |
| ISBN | 1892746816 |
In 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to describe pre-war Berlin and the age of cinematic glamour through the eyes of a woman. The resulting novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, became an acclaimed bestseller and a masterwork of German literature,...
The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe
| Author | Mary Simses |
| ISBN | 0316225851 |
A high-powered Manhattan attorney finds love, purpose, and the promise of a simpler life in her grandmother's hometown.
Ellen Branford is going to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish--to find the hometown boy she once loved, and give him her last letter. Ellen leaves Manhattan and her Kennedy-esque...
| Author | Dante Alighieri |
| ISBN | 0140441050 |
Dorothy L. Sayers's landmark translation follows Dante's terza rima stanza's and brings his poetry vividly to life. Her work was completed after her death by Barbara Reynolds, who provides a foreword on the importance of the translation and an introduction on Dante's view of Heaven. This edition...
Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
| Author | Deborah Solomon |
| ISBN | 0878466843 |
No artist ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell, the self-taught American genius prized for his disquieting shadow boxes, who stands at the intersection of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop art. Legends about Cornell abound--as the shy hermit, the devoted family caretaker, the...
| Author | M.J. Hyland |
| ISBN | 1841956112 |
A powerful debut from a young Australian novelist that features one of the most likeable but contrary figures you are likely to meet in contemporary fiction life of poverty in Sydney. And when she is offered a place as an exchange student at a school in America it seems as if her dreams will be fulfilled....
| Author | Valérie Perrin |
| ISBN | 2226403043 |
Violette Toussaint est garde-cimetière dans une petite ville de Bourgogne. Les gens de passage et les habitués viennent se réchauffer dans sa loge où rires et larmes se mélangent au café qu'elle leur offre. Son quotidien est rythmé par leurs confidences. Un jour, parce qu'un homme et une femme...
