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7 best books like Vanishing Point (David Markson): The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE, The Emigrants, Memories of the Future, Turtle Diary, In a Free State, The Dead Father, The Carrying: Poems

The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE
AuthorSimon Schama
ISBN1847921329
It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes...
The Emigrants
AuthorW.G. Sebald
ISBN0099448882
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss.

Written with...
Memories of the Future
AuthorSigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
ISBN1590173198
Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room;...
Turtle Diary
AuthorRussell Hoban
ISBN0747548315
Review published in 3:AM Magazine: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/turtle...




It would be understandable to expect Russell Hoban’s Turtle Diary to be a light-hearted romantic comedy, one where two lonely protagonists come together over a crazy caper, a plan to set free...
In a Free State
AuthorV.S. Naipaul
ISBN1400030552
No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread,...
The Dead Father
AuthorDonald Barthelme
ISBN0374529256
The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marked by the imaginative use of language that influenced a...
The Carrying: Poems
AuthorAda Limon
ISBN1571315128
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet.

Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the...
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