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10 best books like Yosl Rakover Talks to God (Zvi Kolitz): If Not Now, When?, The Prince and the Pauper, Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, The Rise of Endymion, Evening in Paradise: More Stories, The Captive Mind, Between Friends, The World and Other Places: Stories, Ostatni świadkowie. Utwory solowe na głos dziecięcy

If Not Now, When?
AuthorPrimo Levi
Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries,...
The Prince and the Pauper
AuthorMark Twain
ISBN0451528352
This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales and Tom Canty, a street beggar. During a chance encounter, the two realize they are identical...
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
AuthorAnton Chekhov
ISBN0553381008
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s...
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
AuthorJonathan Safran Foer
ISBN0374280002
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish...
The Rise of Endymion
AuthorDan Simmons
ISBN0553572989
The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer,...
Evening in Paradise: More Stories
AuthorLucia Berlin
ISBN0374279489
A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin.

In 2015, FSG published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller;...
The Captive Mind
AuthorCzesław Miłosz
ISBN0679728562
The Captive Mind begins with a discussion of the novel Insatiability by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and its plot device of Murti-Bing pills, which are used as a metaphor for dialectical materialism, but also for the deadening of the intellect caused by consumerism in Western society. The second...
Between Friends
AuthorAmos Oz
ISBN0701187964
'On the kibbutz it's hard to know. We're all supposed to be friends but very few really are.'

Amos Oz's compelling new fiction offers revelatory glimpses into the secrets and frustrations of the human heart, played out by a community of misfits united by political disagreement, intense dissatisfaction...
The World and Other Places: Stories
AuthorJeanette Winterson
ISBN0375702369
Her first short story collection exhibits the multitude of talents that have made English novelist Jeanette Winterson not just admired but beloved by her many fans. There are the surprising, fresh little phrases minted expressly to convey the delicate realities of the made-up world. There's the...
Ostatni świadkowie. Utwory solowe na głos dziecięcy
AuthorSvetlana Alexievich
ISBN8375365149
W czasie wielkiej wojny ojczyźnianej zginęły miliony radzieckich dzieci. Rosyjskich, białoruskich, ukraińskich, żydowskich, tatarskich, łotewskich, cygańskich, kozackich, uzbeckich, ormiańskich, tadżyckich. Te, które przeżyły, wojny nie zapomniały nigdy. Dla nich to...
The Maids
AuthorJun'ichirō Tanizaki
ISBN0811224929
The Maids is a jewel: an astonishing complement to The Makioka Sisters, set in the same house, in the same turbulent decades, but among the servants as much as the masters. The Maids concerns all the young women who work—before, during, and after WWII—in the pampered, elegant household of the famous...
Greeks Bearing Gifts
AuthorPhilip Kerr
Bernie Gunther returns in the thirteenth book in the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of John le Carre and Robert Harris.1957, Munich. Bernie Gunther's latest move in a long string of varied careers sees him working for an insurance company. It makes a kind of sense:...
The Humbling
AuthorPhilip Roth
ISBN0547239696
Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth's startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his 60s, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, "are melted into air, into...
Billie
AuthorAnna Gavalda
ISBN2842637909
Franck, il s'appelle Franck parce que sa mère et sa grand-mère adoraient Frank Alamo (Biche, oh ma biche, Da doo ron ron, Allô Maillot 38-37 et tout ça) (si, si, ça existe...) et moi, je m'appelle Billie parce que ma mère était jolie de Michael Jackson (Billie Jean is not my lover / She's just a girl...
Fresh Complaint
AuthorJeffrey Eugenides
ISBN0374203067
The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides’s bestselling novels have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery, family love, and what it means to be American in our times. The...
The Drowning People
AuthorRichard Mason
"My wife of more than forty-five years shot herself yesterday afternoon. At least that is what the police assume, and I am playing the part of grieving widower with enthusiasm and success... It was I who killed her."

Thus begins the much-hyped first novel by 20-year-old Oxford undergraduate...
Presunzione
AuthorLuca Mercadante
«Non ti stai perdendo niente, la vita vera non è adesso. La vita è dopo». Queste sono le parole che Bruno Guida si ripete tutti i giorni, come un mantra, mentre frequenta l’ultimo anno di liceo a Caserta e cerca di sottrarsi con ogni mezzo a un mondo che lo reclama. Odia senza requie il suo paese, Villa...
Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul
AuthorMichael Reid
ISBN0300116160
Latin America has often been condemned to failure. Neither poor enough to evoke Africa’s moral crusade, nor as explosively booming as India and China, it has largely been overlooked by the West. Yet this vast continent, home to half a billion people, the world’s largest reserves of arable land,...
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