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Thomas Keneally - Schindler's List
Recreates the remarkable activities and courage of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic German industrialist who gambled everything to save as many Jews as possible from the Nazi death camps.
Score: 4.6 9 Reviews
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J.G. Ballard - Empire of the Sun
In this highly autobiographical novel, the protagonist, a boy named Jim, is interred in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in China during World War II--separated from his parents, and forced to struggle for survival in an alien world. The story culminates in the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Salman Rushdie - Moor's Last Sigh
Salman Rushdie's first full-length novel since THE SATANIC VERSES is the story of a dynasty of spice traders in Bombay. The families in the story are neither Hindu nor Muslim, but Jewish and Christian. Rushdie follows his usual circuitous route to the end of the story, but the telling of the story h ... More
Score: 4.4 5 Reviews
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Patrick McCabe - The Butcher Boy: A Novel
"When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs. Nugent."Thus begins Patrick McCabes shattering novel The Butcher Boy, a powerful and unrelenting journey into the heart of darkness. The bleak, eerie voi ... More
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Kazuo Ishiguro - An Artist of the Floating World
Masuji Ono was once a painter of the Ukiyo, the traditional pleasure-seeking "floating world" of geishas, cherry blossoms, and teahouses. But he also worked as an enthusiastic propagandist, creating posters in support of the imperialist Japanese government during World War II--a war in which his wif ... More
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Rachel Seiffert - The Dark Room
Rachel Seiffert&#8217;s absorbing, internationally acclaimed debut explores the modern German psyche through the experiences of three ordinary people.<br><br>At the onset of World War II, a young photographer&#8217;s assistant is kept out of the war due to a physical disability, and instead spends h ... More
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Caryl Phillips - Crossing the River
In a vastly ambitious and intensely moving novel, the author of Cambridge creates a many-tongued chorus of the African diaspora in the complex and riveting story of a desperate father who sells his three children into slavery.
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J.G. Farrell - The Siege of Krishnapur
A British unit is subjected to a three-month siege by rebels during the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857. The irony of Farrell's view is that, under the strain, the stiff-upper-lip British gradually come to resemble the "uncivilized" natives.
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