Posts Tagged ‘novel’

New novel tells story of a disease inspector helping Jews in Nazi prisons

 Every time I finish reviewing a book about the Holocaust, I resolve, “Never again.” I will not relive, at least in my imagination, the horrors of the ultimate Jewish – or human – nightmare, ever again. And then some publisher throws a book through the transom. Maybe it’s my ever-growing senility, perhaps I’m a secret […]

1952 Novel by Wernher von Braun: Mars Ruled by Elon

May 7th, 2021 Via: The Sun: ELON Musk’s plot to colonise other worlds may have been predicted by a German scientist 70 years ago. Writing in his 1952 science fiction novel “Project Mars”, engineer Wernher von Braun described a man called “Elon” who ruled over the Red Planet. One passage of the book – a […]

No, Anees, the novel is still long لا يا أنيس.. الرواية ما تزال طويلة

We disagreed a lot, but we agreed on what was going on with Palestine. حياة الحويك عطية Source: Al-Mayadeen Net I knew him 50 years ago when the whole nation was rising, and I last met him in Damascus. No, Anis, the novel is still long, and we will all leave before it is over, […]

Book club: Zaina Arafat’s outstanding debut novel ‘You Exist Too Much’

For this month, we’re excited to announce our February pick is Zaina Arafat’s debut novel, “You Exist Too Much.” The book is narrated through vignettes by an unnamed bisexual Palestinian-American protagonist who is struggling with an eating disorder, a shifting relationship with her mother, and busy with unattainable infatuations. The cuts between childhood and adulthood […]

Author Highlights the Horrors – and Hope – in the Spanish Inquisition in New Novel

For Gil Troy’s review of “The Poetry of Secrets,” click here. In 2016, author Cambria Gordon, her husband and their youngest child left Los Angeles to take a yearlong sabbatical in Madrid. She fell in love with Spain and became fascinated with the history of the Jewish people there, traveling to the old communities where […]

One year since novel coronavirus was identified, and the pandemic rages on

It’s been one year since reports first emerged that a viral “pneumonia of unknown cause” infecting dozens in China had been identified as a novel coronavirus. That novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, is now known to cause COVID-19, an illness that has wreaked havoc on the planet, upended normal life, and killed more than 1.8 million people […]

Spy novel master John le Carre, who defined the Cold War thriller, dies at 89

LONDON (AP) — John le Carre, the spy-turned-novelist whose elegant and intricate narratives defined the Cold War espionage thriller and brought acclaim to a genre critics had once ignored, has died. He was 89, Le Carre’s literary agency, Curtis Brown, said Sunday that he died in Cornwall, southwest England on Saturday after a short illness. […]

Novel on Holland’s largest Holocaust rescue operation slammed for errors

It was meant as an ode to one of the most courageous yet little-known rescue efforts of Jews during the Holocaust.But a week after its publication, a Dutch-language historical novel is at the heart of a controversy over whether the author twisted the historical record in ways that risk distorting public understanding of the genocide. […]

Italian Holocaust graphic novel trilogy debuts final installment

The third and final installment in the Casa Prima del Buio series, an Italian graphic novel series detailing the fictional story of a German conductor and his Jewish pupil during the Holocaust, has already hit shelves, and will be available in full December 23.Known in English as At Home Before Dark, the series, which began […]

Novel revives true story of gutsy Jew who survived Nazis to marry German soldier

LONDON — In November 1943, Hedwig Bercu, a Jewish woman living in Nazi-occupied Jersey, faked her own death and went into hiding. The 24-year-old’s near-miraculous escape was aided by a local islander, Dorothea Weber, who sheltered Bercu in her own home for 18 months. Beru was also helped by her lover — Lt. Kurt Rümmele, […]

Bacteriophages: A Novel Concept in Probiotics!

October 13th, 2020 By Dr. Edward F. Group Guest Writer for Wake Up World By now, most people know that probiotic supplements give your gut a boost of good bacteria and provide many health benefits. But experts have identified an exciting new ingredient that can take gut health to the next level — bacteriophages. Pioneering companies like Global Healing […]

Englander’s new novel is high entertainment, with a grim view of Israel

A few months back I heard Nathan Englander talk about his new Israel novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth, and concluded that it was not very serious as a political commentary. Then a friend wrote to tell me the novel is subversive. It’s incredibly anti-Israel while also being sympathetic. But the most sympathetic […]

Satanic Debt Racket Exposed in Banker’s Novel

  Henry MakowOctober 4, 2011 According to Roussel, twelve “oligarchic families” have grown indescribably wealthy by lending “money” to governments at interest. These are the central bankers… … The whole of modern history can be explained by their farm management practices. Wars are started to increase the debt and cull the herd. The goal is […]

Novel Approach to HIV-AIDS Scam

by Tom Valentine   Investment greed and monopoly has fueled the sickest medical scam since vaccine promotion. It gives credence to the “Club of Rome conspiracy to lower world populations.” David Rasnick, an American biologist with impressive credentials  wrote a novel “ Germ of lies ” and this is his promo pitch: When her best […]

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