The Mighty Walzer
10 best books like The Mighty Walzer (Howard Jacobson): Portnoy's Complaint, A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, England, Their England, The Final Solution, Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys, Titmuss Regained, Brewster's Millions, Tropic Of Ruislip, Topper Takes a Trip
| Author | Philip Roth |
| ISBN | 0099399016 |
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood. Hilariously funny, boldly intimate, startlingly candid, Portnoy’s Complaint was an immediate bestseller upon...
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power
| Author | Paul Fischer |
| ISBN | 1250054265 |
"The 1978 abductions of the South Korean actress Choi-Eun-hee and her ex-husband, the director Shin Sang-ok, in Hong Kong is the true crime at the center of Paul Fischer's gripping and surprisingly timely new book."
-The New York Times
Before becoming the world's most notorious dictator,...
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
| Author | Ari Shavit |
| ISBN | 0385521707 |
A groundbreaking, ambitious, and authoritative examination of Israel by one of the most influential columnists writing about the Middle East today
My Promised Land tells the story of Israel as it has never been told before. Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel...
| Author | A.G. Macdonell |
| ISBN | 0330280414 |
Banished from his native Scotland by a curious clause in his father’s will, Donald Cameron moves to London and decides to conduct a study of the English people; a strange race who, he is told, have built an entire national identity around a reverence for team spirit and the memory of Lord Nelson . . .
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| Author | Michael Chabon |
| ISBN | 0060777109 |
In deep retirement in the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with...
Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys
| Author | Billy Crystal |
| ISBN | 0805098232 |
Hilarious and heartfelt observations on aging from one of America’s favorite comedians as he turns 65, and a look back at a remarkable career
Billy Crystal is turning 65, and he’s not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that come...
Pitting greed against Green a new town is being planned in England's green and pleasant land. Usually the champion of greed, conservative M.P. Leslie Titmuss is thrown off his political course, since the new development threatens his own Rapstone Manor. Bringing us up-to-date on the quirks, quarrels,...
| Author | George Barr McCutcheon |
| ISBN | 1406956155 |
With the passing of his beloved grandfather, Monty Brewster inherits a long-anticipated million dollars. But he suddenly discovers that he can inherit seven times as much from his eccentric uncle if he spends every cent of his grandfather's money within a year. The carefree prospect of running through...
| Author | Leslie Thomas |
| ISBN | 0749325208 |
There is always a danger that when you revisit something from the past that you loved it will disappoint. Films look cheap, games are tacky, food doesn’t taste the same and books can leaving you wondering “what was I thinking..” Nevertheless I have recently bought a couple of books that I felt deserved...
| Author | Thorne Smith |
| ISBN | 0375753079 |
The beloved characters--mortal and immortal--of Topper return in this uproarious romp through the south of France. One of Thorne Smith's best-loved comedies, it proves once again that he is the undisputed master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee.
Cosmo Topper, the...
| Author | David Madsen |
| ISBN | 1873982712 |
In the intersection of the 15th and 16th centuries, a Dwarf (Big "D" to show respect) goes from the mean streets of Rome to walk with the giants of that world. Madsen remarkably gives us a tour of Europe, Italy, Rome, the Vatican, the papacy, Gnosticism, side-shows, sex, gore and love - always love. The...
| Author | Amos Oz |
| ISBN | 0156031604 |
Set in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael is the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent but unremarkable man named Michael. As the years pass and Hannah’s tempestuous fantasy life encroaches upon reality, she feels increasingly estranged from him and the marriage...
| Author | Philip Roth |
| ISBN | 0547318359 |
In the “stifling heat of equatorial Newark,” a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, lifelong disability, and even death. This is the startling theme of Philip Roth’s wrenching new book: a wartime polio epidemic in the summer...
1913 - Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts
| Author | Florian Illies |
| ISBN | 3100368010 |
1913 Die Geschichte eines ungeheuren Jahres
Virtuos entfaltet Florian Illies das Panorama eines unvergleichlichen Jahres, in dem unsere Gegenwart beginnt. In Literatur, Kunst und Musik werden die Extreme ausgereizt, als gäbe es kein Morgen. Proust sucht nach der verlorenen Zeit, Malewitsch...
