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Three Muses is a love story that enthralls: a tale of Holocaust survival venturing through memory, trauma, and identity, while raising the curtain on the unforgiving discipline of ballet. In post-WWII New York, John Curtin suffers lasting damage from having been forced to sing for the concentration camp kommandant who murdered his family. John trains to be a psychiatrist, struggling to wrest his life from his terror of music and his past.

Whether she was hiding in an oven or the forest, in the monastery or in the cellar, Lena has been followed by one thing: loneliness. Now an elderly woman with nothing but her memories to guide her - she embarks on a journey to unravel the truth of her past, once and for all. You have never heard a story quite like this. Based on real events, Three Voices illustrates the trauma and relief of a woman escaping the atrocities of the Holocaust, traveling the world, and eventually reclaiming her childhood.

Uno dei capolavori delle letteratura del '900 nella pregevole traduzione di Bruno Fonzi. Una lunga fila di emigranti è in marcia verso la città polacca di Lodz: fra loro una variopinta comunità di ebrei ortodossi che intende guadagnarsi da vivere con la tradizionale filatura a telaio. Sarà il seme dal quale nasceranno grandi industrie tessili capaci di imporre le loro merci in tutta l'Europa.

Set in an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, this best-selling and warmly acclaimed Israeli novel examines the interconnected lives of its residents, whose turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and problematic decisions reveal a society in the midst of an identity crisis.