There Are Jews in My House
8 best books like There Are Jews in My House (Lara Vapnyar): Doctor Zhivago, The House of the Dead, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea, The White Guard, The Insulted and Humiliated, The Spinoza Problem, The Schopenhauer Cure, Charming Billy
| Author | Boris Pasternak |
| ISBN | 0679774386 |
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature...
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0486434095 |
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.
As...
Considered Teffi’s single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is a deeply personal account of the author’s last months in Russia and Ukraine, suffused with her acute awareness of the political currents churning around her, many of which have now resurfaced.
In 1918,...
| Author | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| ISBN | 0099490668 |
Although less famous than Mikhail Bulgakov's comic hit, The Master and Margarita, The White Guard is still an engrossing book, though completely different in tone. It is set in Kiev during the Russian revolution and tells the story of the Turbin family and the war's effect on the middle-classes (not...
The Insulted and Humiliated
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0898751047 |
The Insulted & Injured, published soon after Dostoevsky's political imprisonment, clearly foreshadows his later preoccupation with unconscious psychological drives & their external effects on the lives of his characters. Where his later works carry these drives to inevitably dramatic...
| Author | Irvin D. Yalom |
| ISBN | 0465029639 |
When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster’s office for anti-Semitic remarks he made during a school speech, he is forced, as punishment, to memorize passages about Spinoza from the autobiography of the German poet Goethe. Rosenberg is stunned to discover that Goethe,...
| Author | Irvin D. Yalom |
| ISBN | 0060938102 |
Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work -- and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier. Yet Philip claims to be cured -- miraculously transformed...
| Author | Alice McDermott |
| ISBN | 2264031115 |
The late Billy Lynch's family and friends gather at a small bar and grill in the Bronx to remember better times. His widow, Maeve, is there and everyone admires the way she is holding up, just as they always admired the way she cared for Billy after the alcohol had ruined him. But one cannot think of Billy...
