In a memoir of a Jewish man's search for his roots, the son of Holocaust survivors returns to his parents' homeland in Poland to rediscover the former glory of East European Jewry.

Jewels and Ashes

Literature & Fiction

Zable, Arnold

Contemporary

Harcourt

In a memoir of a Jewish man's search for his roots, the son of Holocaust survivors returns to his parents' homeland in Poland to rediscover the former glory of East European Jewry

Jewels and Ashes (A Harvest Book)

Harcourt on Demand

Another time, another place, another war, combining outstanding writing about travel, relations with parents and journey of historical discovery.

History

Europe

Scribe Publications Pty Ltd.

"...a brilliant collection of travel stories...threaded with great warmth, as readers are invited to travel in the company of these famous authors and experience their passions and revelations." BOOKSELLER + PUBLISHER 
We asked some of the world's most acclaimed fiction authors, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Tea Obreht and DBC Pierre, to describe their greatest non-fictional journeys. The 32 stories collected in Lonely Planet's Better than Fiction touch on everything from disorientation and revelation to disillusion and redemption. 
However, these real-life tales all share one common characteristic: a passion for the precious gift that travel confers, from its unexpected but inevitably enriching lessons about other peoples and places, to the truths it reveals about ourselves. By turns funny, poignant and thought-provoking, you'll be transported from Azerbaijan to Vietnam, via Iceland, India, Samoa, Scotland, Antarctica, Alaska, Argentina, Nicaragua, Rome, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and beyond. 
Edited by travel writer Don George. 
Also available: Lonely Planet Better than Fiction 2 
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Lonely Planet Better than Fiction 1: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers (Lonely Planet Travel Literature)

MORRIS, JAN

ANDERSEN, KURT

COURTENAY, BRYCE

MAYES, Frances

Carson, Tom

Obreht, Téa

Finch, Charles

Yogerst, Joe

Kelman, Stephen

HULME, Keri

IYER, PICO

Block, Stefan Merrill

Gemmell, Nikki

GEORGE, Don

Pavone, Chris

Jones, Lloyd

Joinson, Suzanne

Hall, Steven

Birch, Carol

Davies, Peter Ho

ALLENDE,ISABEL

PIERRE, DBC

Amsterdam, Steven

Parssinen, Keija

Dapin, Mark

Cunningham, Sophie

Whitely, Aliya

Hyland, M.J.

MATTHIESSEN, PETER

OATES,JOYCE CAROL

Lewycka, Marina

McCall-Smith, Alexander

Short Stories & Anthologies

Lonely Planet

A mesmerising novel about suffering and survival. It finds authority and powerful meaning in telling stories about the diaspora of the twentieth century: we hear of Moshe stalking the streets of Shanghai and Warsaw, of Laizer imprisoned in the Soviet city of Lvov, and of Zalman marooned in Vilna and Kobe.

Cafe Scheherazade

Text Publishing Company

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