Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green Winner of the 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Five words from the blurb: Holocaust, Jewish, boy, hides, brothel Blooms of Darkness is set during WWII and follows an eleven-year-old Jewish boy as he is forced to leave his family and hide from the Nazis in a brothel. Blooms [...]
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HHhH by Laurent Binet
Translated from the French by Sam Taylor Five words from the blurb: mission, assassinate, Nazi, novelist, truth There has been a lot of hype surrounding this book, but it is all justified. HHhH breaks the mould, creating a new genre that will change the way you look at non-fiction and lead you to question the accuracy [...]
Beatrice and Virgil – Yann Martel
I loved Life of Pi so much that I bought a copy of Beatrice and Virgil from the US, months before it was released in the UK. Unfortunately my enthusiasm failed to pay off as I was very disappointed by it. Beatrice and Virgil is a book about the Holocaust, but there are many points [...]
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