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Yonder: Restless Books for Young Readers | Ages 3–6
A one-of-a-kind picture book about an Israeli boy and a Palestinian boy who bond on the soccer field—translated into English, Hebrew, and Arabic.
Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632061560
Publication date: Aug 20, 2019
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063793
Paperback publication date: May 7, 2024
2020 Foreword INDIES Silver Award for Anthologies
Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Yiddish)
A momentous and diverse anthology of the influences and inspirations of Yiddish voices in America—radical, dangerous, and seductive, but also sweet, generous, and full of life—edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.
Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632062628
Publication date: Jan 21, 2020
Paperback ISBN: 9781632062260
Publication date: Apr 25, 2023
Finalist for the 2023 National Jewish Book Award for Hebrew Fiction in Translation
From the author of The Memory Monster, a New York Times Notable Book of 2020, comes a gripping examination of the complexities of military service as experienced by Abigail, a psychologist who becomes implicated in the dilemmas soldiers encounter both on and off the battlefield.
Hardcover ISBN: 9781632063120
Publication date: Sep 20, 2022
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020
2020 National Jewish Book Awards Finalist
“A brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the present” (The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice), Yishai Sarid’s The Memory Monster is a harrowing parable of a young historian who becomes consumed by the memory of the Holocaust.
Hardcover ISBN: 9781632062710
Publication date: Sep 8, 2020
Paperback ISBN: 9781632060600
Publication date: Sep 7, 2021
Yonder: Restless Books for Young Readers | Ages 5 - 10
The Mermaid in the Bathtub is a charming, gorgeously retro retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic story “The Little Mermaid,” by beloved Israeli author and illustrator duo Nurit Zarchi and Rutu Modan.
Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632062116
Publication date: Oct 15, 2019
From the award-winning Serbian author David Albahari comes a devastating and Kafkaesque war fable about an army unit sent to guard a military checkpoint with no idea where they are or who the enemy might be.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632061928
Publication date: Sep 11, 2018
“No one alive today, anywhere, has been able to demonstrate the sheer possibilities of artistic invention—and in so many disciplines—as powerfully as Alejandro Jodorowsky.… His new semi-autobiographical novel Where the Bird Sings Best is his magnum opus, a fantastical something that in many ways mirrors the author himself: It is brilliant, mad, unpredictable.”
—NPR, Best Books of 2015
"One of the most inspiring artists of our time.... A prophet of creativity."
—Kanye West
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060952
Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632060280
Publication date: Mar 31, 2015
From Alejandro Jodorowsky—the legendary director of The Holy Mountain, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, and author of Where the Bird Sings Best—comes another autobiographical tour-de-force: a mythopoetic portrait of the artist as a young man in Chile in the tumultuous 1930s.
Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632060532
Publication date: Nov 6, 2018
Named one of The Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Books of 2015
Winner of the Aegon Literary Award
“Captivity is a complex and fast-paced tale of Jewish life in the early first century, a sort of sword-and-sandals saga as reimagined by Henry Roth. The narrative follows Uri from Rome to Jerusalem and back, from prospectless dreamer to political operative to pogrom survivor—who along the way also happens to dine with Herod Antipas and Pontius Pilate and get thrown into a cell with a certain Galilean rabble-rouser. Hungarian György Spiró’s deft combination of philosophical inquiry and page-turning brio should overcome that oft-mentioned American timidity toward books in translation.”
—The Wall Street Journal, Best Books of 2015
Paperback ISBN: 9781632061416
Hardcover ISBN: 9781632060495
Publication date: Nov 3, 2015
Finalist for the 2017 PEN Translation Prize
The final literary testament of “one of Israel’s greatest and least celebrated writers” (Nicole Krauss), Between Life and Death is a startlingly brave, funny, poetic, and moving autobiographical novel about the four months Yoram Kaniuk spent in a coma near the end of his life.
Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632060921
Publication date: Sep 13, 2016
The Israeli Republic “suggests how the Iranian and Israeli leaders who feel such intense mutual hostility today actually mirror one another in certain ways, particularly in their foundational attitudes toward religious authority, political and economic populism and the West. That a writer such as Al-e Ahmad, guru to the ayatollahs, liked Israel now seems touching. What he liked about Israel seems cautionary."
—Bernard Avishai, Foreign Affairs
"My intellectual hero."
—Reza Aslan, author of Zealot and No god but God
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632061393
Publication date: Jan 31, 2017
"Facing one another
we turn our backs to the world’s calamities.
Behind our closed eyes and curtains
both heat and war
erupted at once."
eBook • ISBN: 9781632060037
Publication date: Jun 17, 2014
“First-rate fiction, beautifully translated, by one of the world's great contemporary women writers.”
—Kirkus Reviews
"The success of Thirst rests entirely on the author's evocative and lush prose.”
—The New York Times
eBook • ISBN: 9781632060136
Publication date: Jan 6, 2015
eBook available from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes | Kobo
By Yishai Sarid
Translated from the Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan
Winner of the prestigious Bernstein Prize in 2016
Who will rule the Holy Land, and at what cost?
Hardcover ISBN: 9781632063892
Publication date: November 26, 2024