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From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings. NOW WITH NEW MATERIAL.Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, betwe...

From 'one of the greatest fiction writers and critics alive today' (The New York Times), a new novella about memory and ageing

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Masterly collection of short stories by an American novelist at the height of her powersIt is the stories upon which Cynthia Ozick's literary reputation rests. She writes about bitterness, cruelty and compulsion with brutal acuity and tenderness. She has created a timeless collection in which Greek mythology, superstition and the religious and cultural experience of the Jewish diaspora in America collide. The Pagan Rabbi is seduced by a tree s...

Sparky, mischievous, witty, dazzlingly clever' Ali Smith'A cause for celebration. Here we have a heroine to love, a story we can't let go of' Ann PatchettIt had always been my habit-- privately I felt it to be an ecstasy-- to enter, as into a mysterious vault, any public library.1930s New York is filling with Europe's ousted dreamers, turned overnight into refugees.Rose Meadows, book-loving and orphaned at eighteen, takes a job as assistant to...

The Shawl is considered a modern classic - a masterpiece in two acts. The horror and desolation evoked through piercing imagery - first through the abomination of a Holocaust concentration camp murder, second through the eyes of the murdered child's mother, thirty years later, now 'a madwoman and a scavenger' - offers the reader a chilling insight into the empty suffering of a 'survivor'. In 'The Shawl', a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a con...

From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past, and how our experience colors those meanings.Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-Sem...

Apparso per la prima volta nel 1997 sulle pagine del "New Yorker", questo impetuoso, lucidissimo saggio di Cynthia Ozick strappa il velo di dissimulazione e retorica che negli anni ha ovattato e mistificato la limpida voce di Anne Frank e del suo Diario. Troppo spesso e troppo a lungo oggetto di interpretazioni semplificate e fuorvianti, di appropriazioni indebite, tradimenti e comode "santificazioni", il Diario è servito da lasciapassare per ...

Nel 1935 la diciottenne Rose Meadows, orfana, brillante, colta, distrutta, "essenzialmente una persona che si limita a guardare e ascoltare" e appena buttata fuori dalla casa di suo cugino Bertram dall'odiosa fidanzata comunista, risponde a un annuncio di un giornale di Albany che richiede un'assistente per una famiglia recentemente arrivata da Berlino che deve, da lì a poco, trasferirsi a New York. Sebbene non sia chiaro se Rose debba fare da...

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From the critically and commercially acclaimed essayist comes a novel of outstanding beauty and intrigue.

Ruth Puttermesser vive a New York. La sua cultura è monumentale. La sua vita amorosa minima. Preferisce, ad esempio, versare lacrime per Platone che divertirsi con Morris Rappoport, un uomo sposato con cui ha una relazione blanda e molto breve. Ma Ruth ha un dono: le sue fantasie rivelano una sconcertante tendenza ad avverarsi - con conseguenze disastrose per ciò che siamo abituati a definire la "realtà". La Signorina Puttermesser vorrebbe tan...

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