The story of a country girl in France who witnessed a miracle. Takes place in the 1940s in a poor village.

The Song of Bernadette

Biographies & Memoirs

franz-werfel

Community & Culture

AVON.

Star of the Unborn

Bantam]

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Between Heaven and Earth

Philosophical Library

<p>"It is as if people had not the courage to form a vivid picture of their own immortality." - Jean Paul"I knew Teta.  She was an old woman, short and plump, with broad cheekbones and forget-me-not-blue eyes which had in them an alert, stubborn expression often mingled with distrust.  As of her waddling gait, like that of some timid nocturnal animal anxious to escape from the dangerous proximity of human beings and reach the security of its lair.  It could never have entered my mind that I should one day attempt to record the history of this old serving-woman who could only barely read and write.  Yet now I am sitting here, at a strange table in an alien land, painfully evoking the memory of a world that has long been submerged into the past and in which the heroine played no more than a shadowy, subordinate role. "</p>

Embezzled Heaven

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

The Viking Press

Forty Days of Musa Dagh

<p>This stirring, poignant novel, based on real historical events that made of actual people true heroes, unfolds the tragedy that befell the Armenian people in the dark year of 1915. The Great War is raging through Europe, and in the ancient, mountainous lands southwest of the Caspian Sea the Turks have begun systematically to exterminate their Christian subjects. Unable to deny his birthright or his people, one man, Gabriel Bagradian born an Armenian, educated in Paris, married to a Frenchwoman, and an officer doing his duty as a Turkish subject in the Ottoman army will strive to resist death at the hands of his blood enemy by leading 5,000 Armenian villagers to the top of Musa Dagh, the mountain of Moses. There, for forty days, in the face of almost certain death, they will suffer the siege of a Turkish army hell-bent on genocide. A passionate warning against the dangers of racism and scapegoating, and prefiguring the ethnic horrors of World War II, this important novel from the early 1930s remains the only significant treatment, in fiction or nonfiction, of the first genocide in the twentieth century s long series of inhumanities. It also continues to be today what the New York Times deemed it in 1933 a true and thrilling novel ... a story which must rouse the emotions of all human beings. Musa Dagh gives us a lasting sense of participation in a stirring episode of history.... Magnificent. The New York Times Book Review A novel full of the breath, the flesh and blood and bone and spirit of life. Saturday Review</p>

Literary

Aeonian Pr(Amerx)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Women's Health

Viking Press

In February 1940 Franz Werfel began work on an "intricate little tale of a marriage," which, he warned his publisher, was quite a departure from his best-selling fiction of the 1930s. This new short novel was to be a tragicomic tale of contemporary history, a glimpse into a world that was soon to become inhospitable and uninhabitable.Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand is, in many ways, a prequel to what is known as Holocaust literature. It is about a long suppressed love triangle between Leonidas Tachezy, a high-level Austrian career bureaucrat, his younger, trophy wife Amelie, and a Jewish woman from his past, Vera Wormser, with whom he'd fallen in love when she was fourteen. After his marriage, Leonidas encounters Vera in a German university town where she is studying philosophy. He makes a promise that implies marriage, but drops out of her life entirely to return to a comfortable existence until one day when a letter arrives, addressed with Vera's unmistakable handwriting in pale blue ink. Like Humbert Humbert in Lolita, Leonidas explains his "crime" against Vera to an imaginary courtroom in a way that anticipates Nabokov. The evasions and self-deceptions of Werfel's characters, the various Austrian types both Jewish and non-Jewish and the pervading breathless air of anti-Semitism capture interwar Austria in its poignant eleventh hour of toleration, the heart of Werfel's subject in this twisted love story.Prior to the current NEA-award-winning translation, Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand was the only Werfel novel never before published in book form in English translation. Available now to a new generation of readers in America, this translation of Werfel's novella powerfully suggests that Werfel still belongs in the same company as his contemporaries Mann, Kafka, Canetti, Musil, and other Central Europeans whose works have a permanent place in the world canon.

Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand

David R. Godine, Publisher

Song of Bernadette

Religion & Spirituality

Matthew James Publishing Ltd

Die Geschwister von Neapel

Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag

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