Nowhere Man
9 best books like Nowhere Man (Aleksandar Hemon): The Inheritance of Loss, Everything Is Illuminated, Forgotten Country, Buddhism for Mothers: A Calm Approach to Caring for Yourself and Your Children, The Red Queen, לפני המקום, מסע דילוגים, Wildlife, Suddenly In the Depths of the Forest
| Author | Kiran Desai |
| ISBN | 0802142818 |
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju,...
Everything Is Illuminated
| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| ISBN | 0060529709 |
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable...
| Author | Catherine Chung |
| ISBN | 1594488088 |
Weaving Korean folklore within a modern narrative of immigration and identity, Forgotten Country is a fierce exploration of the inevitability of loss, the conflict between obligation and freedom, and a family struggling to find its way out of silence and back to one another.
On the night...
| Author | Sarah Napthali |
| ISBN | 1741140102 |
Addressing the often-overlooked spiritual needs of mothers, this book discusses Buddhist teachings as applied to the everyday challenges and stresses of raising children. Offered are ways for mothers to reconnect with their inner selves and become calmer and happier—with the recognition that...
| Author | Margaret Drabble |
| ISBN | 0771029071 |
Two hundred years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen doesn’t want her extraordinary existence to be forgotten. Her long and privileged life behind the Korean palace walls was not all it seemed, and the Red Queen (or her ghost) is still desperate to retell...
אני בהחלט מחפשת ספרים שישאבו אותי לתוכם ולכן כשקראתי את ההמלצה, לא הצלחתי להימנע מרכישתו וקידומו לראש תור הספרים הממתינים.
בשורה התחתונה אם אתם מעוניינים...
בתנופה רבת חן ומעוף מאיר חיים באר רגעים קטנים וגדולים מחמישים שנותיו בעולם הספר – תחילה כשוליית מגיהים ולבסוף כסופר בעל שם. אלה סיפורים על ספרים ובעיקר...
| Author | Richard Ford |
| ISBN | 0679734473 |
When Joe Brinson was sixteen, his father moved the family to Great Falls, Montana, the setting for this harrowing and transfixing novel by the acclaimed author of 'Rock Springs'. Filled with an abiding sense of love and family, and of the forces that test them to the breaking point, Wildlife—first...
Suddenly In the Depths of the Forest
In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds disappeared some years ago. Only the rebellious young teacher and an old man talk about animals to the children, who have never seen such (mythical) creatures. Otherwise there's a strange silence round the whole subject. One wretched,...
