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A fictionalized account of the life of expressionist painter Chaim Soutine follows his life and career in Paris, his friendship with Amedeo Modigliani, his sudden success and rise to fame, and his flight from the Nazi occupation of France.

Der New Yorker Detective Jacob Kanon (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) reist nach London, um seine frisch verheiratete Tochter und ihren Ehemann zu besuchen. Doch dazu kommt es nicht. Noch am Flughafen wird er bei seiner Ankunft von Scotland Yard mit der traurigen Nachricht konfrontiert, dass ein junges Paar ermordet wurde, bei dem es sich um die beiden Frischgetrauten handeln soll. Die Körper wurden brutal und auf rituelle Weise drapiert und weisen Ähnli...

Der New Yorker Detective Jacob Kanon (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) reist nach London, um seine frisch verheiratete Tochter und ihren Ehemann zu besuchen. Doch dazu kommt es nicht. Noch am Flughafen wird er bei seiner Ankunft von Scotland Yard mit der traurigen Nachricht konfrontiert, dass ein junges Paar ermordet wurde, bei dem es sich um die beiden Frischgetrauten handeln soll. Die Körper wurden brutal und auf rituelle Weise drapiert und weisen Ähnli...

A wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life of the extraordinary artist Chaim SoutineSteve Stern's astonishing new novel The Village Idiot begins on a glorious spring day in Paris 1917. Amid the carnage of World War I, some of the foremost artists of the age have chosen to stage a boat race. At the head of the regatta is Amedeo Modigliani, seated regally in a bathtub pulled by a flock of canvasback ducks. But unbeknownst...

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WELCOME TO THE SWINGIN' SEVENTIES...FOXY LADIES is the chronicle of an America emerging from the social and political upheaval of the 1960s, with women, gays, lesbians, African-Americans and others on the fringes of society becoming empowered and creating a new paradigm. It's also the very personal story of Zoe Heller, a talented designer who rises in the ranks of the advertising department of a major Los Angeles department store that dominate...

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The contributors--historians and anthropologists from a number of countries--move beyond the traditional structural analysis of society to a finer understanding of people as actors. Native Andean initiatives and consciousness are clearly placed at the center of this inquiry, which merges the best methods of history an anthropology. Stern begins with a vigorously argued theoretical essay in which he identifies major findings and arguments runni...

A triumphant achievement that showcases 25 years of outstanding work by one of our true masters of the short story. Stern's stories go from the unlikely old Jewish quarter of the Pinch in Memphis to a turn-of-the-century immigrant community in New York and beyond.

The first comprehensive study of the Shining Path, the Maoist sect of indigenous people who waged a a brutal war in Peru during the 1980s and early 1990s in an attempt to effect a Communist revolution .

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A dazzling, spellbinding novel set in a mythical Jewish community by the acclaimed author of the New York Times Notable Book The Book of MischiefIt's the late 1960s. The Pinch, once a thriving Jewish community centered on North Main Street in Memphis, has been reduced to a single tenant. Lenny Sklarew awaits the draft by peddling drugs and shelving books-until he learns he is a character in a book about the rise and fall of this very Pinch. Mu...

By identifying and embracing the paradox that human rights are at once a transcendent value belonging to all and a reality forged by particular people rooted in specific places, "The Human Rights Paradox" advances a new way to understand the history, contemporary politics, advocacy, and future prospects of human rights.

This second edition of "Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest" includes Stern's 1992 reflections on the ten years of historical interpretation that have passed since the book's original publication--setting his analysis of Huamanga in a larger perspective. "This book is a monument to both scholarship and comprehension, comparable in its treatment of the indigenous peoples after the conquest only to that of Charles Gibson ...

In this study of gender relations in late colonial Mexico (ca. 1760-1821), Steve Stern analyzes the historical connections between gender, power, and politics in the lives of peasants, Indians, and other marginalized peoples. Through vignettes of everyday life, he challenges assumptions about gender relations and political culture in a patriarchal society.

A dazzling, spellbinding novel set in a mythical Jewish community.

A dazzling, spellbinding novel set in a mythical Jewish community.

Shining and Other Paths offers the first systematic account of the social experiences at the heart of the war waged between Shining Path and the Peruvian military during the 1980s and early 1990s. Confronting and untangling the many myths and enigmas that surround the war and the wider history of twentieth-century Peru, this book presents clear and often poignant analyses of the brutal reshaping of life and politics during a war that cost tens...