Historisch & Politisch

This new edition of The House of Memory: Stories by Jewish Women Writers of Latin America revisits the meaning of heritage and home, exploring the experience of losing the familiar to embrace the unknown. While often painful in its examination of antisemitism, this collection of essays embraces the belief that hope and love can triumph over adversity and racism. This collection contains over thirty stories from internationally acclaimed writers, such as Clarice Lispector and Margo Glantz, as well as new voices, with some appearing for the first time in English translations. Although many of the stories are rooted in the Jewish experience and tradition, there is a universal resonance that transcends place, race, gender and religion to speak of matters that are still ever-present to all of us.

The History of Her Future is a series of short stories detailing the later life of one of the most infamous names in the annals of American crime: Lizzie Borden of Fall River, Massachusetts. Each story moves inexorably back in time from the day of her death in 1927 to the brutal killings of her father and stepmother in 1892. These tales weave a dark - and at times, darkly comic - tapestry of sisterly "love," unlikely friendships, unseen enemies, community desires, betrayals, secrets, greed and the tantalizing question: Did Lizzie Borden really take an axe...?

In 1910 Estanza an adventurous Greek girl of 18, with a deep interest in German, classic literature is lured to Berlin by a highly placed German diplomat who loves her. Konrad joins her in Berlin and they consummate their forbidden love. Their daughter, Konstanza, whom Konrad refuses to acknowledge, is born in Switzerland. At eight years old, Konstanza is sent to a prestigious German boarding school where she learns about the brutality that lurks beneath the veneer of German culture. After her parents are murdered by the type of thugs who soon will rule Germany, Konstanza travels to Poland, to work for a loving Jewish family.When Poland is occupied by Germany, the family is ripped apart and Konstanza is forced to become a housekeeper for a unit of German officers. Risking her life on a daily basis, Konstanza becomes instrumental in a plan to save Jewish children from certain death. They Will Not Be Forgotten reveals inconceivable cruelty by a population gone criminally insane and memorializes the brave people who have the courage to resist evil.

The New York Times #1 bestselling modern classic about courage, rebellion and the enduring power of books<BR><BR>SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION with exclusive extra behind-the-scenes material from the author<BR><BR>It is 1939. In Nazi Germany, the country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier - and will become busier still. <BR><BR>By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, and this is her first act of book thievery. So begins Liesel's love affair with books and words, and soon she is stealing from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library . . . wherever there are books to be found.<BR><BR>But these are dangerous times, and when Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, nothing will ever be the same again.<BR><BR>In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.<BR><BR>Now a major film from Twentieth-Century Fox starring Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson.<BR><BR>'Life affirming, triumphant and tragic' Guardian

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An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.<BR><BR>'What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?'<BR>'I think it would hurt a great deal.'<BR><BR>Millions die on the Western Front but in East Africa a quite different war is being waged - one with little point and which is so ignored that it will carry on after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell both sides to stop.<BR><BR>As the conflict sweeps up natives and colonials, so those left at home and those fighting abroad find themselves unable to escape the tide of history bearing down on them.

In Then - Morris Gleitzman's heartbreaking children's novel set during the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War - Jewish orphan Felix and his best friend Zelda have been captured and are on the way to a concentration camp, unless they manage to escape . . .<BR><BR>A little hope goes a long way.<BR><BR>I had a plan for me and Zelda. Pretend to be someone else. Find new parents, be safe forever. <BR><BR>Then the Nazis came.<BR><BR>My name is Felix. This is my story.<BR><BR>Then is the second in a series of children's novels by Morris Gleitzman that began with Once about Felix, a Jewish orphan caught in the middle of the Holocaust. The other books in the sequence, Once, Then, After, Soon, Maybe and Now are also available from Puffin.