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In this deeply personal journey of discovery, Ami Ayalon seeks input and perspective from Palestinians and Israelis whose experiences differ from his own. As head of the Shin Bet security agency, he gained empathy for the enemy and learned that when Israel carries out anti-terrorist operations in a political context of hopelessness, the Palestinian public will support violence, because they have nothing to lose. Researching and writing Friendly Fire, he came to understand that his patriotic life had blinded him to the self-defeating nature of policies that have undermined Israel's civil society while heaping humiliation upon its Palestinian neighbors. If Israel becomes an Orwellian dystopia, Ayalon writes, it won't be thanks to a handful of theologians dragging us into the dark past. The secular majority will lead us there motivated by fear and propelled by silence. Ayalon is a realist, not an idealist, and many who consider themselves Zionists will regard as radical his conclusions ab

“A must-read war memoir… with zero punches pulled, related by one of the most incisive observers of the American political scene.” ―KIRKUS (starred review)“Funny, biting, thoughtful and wholly origina

A buoyant account of the nightly tug-of-war between a sleepy father and his son, and the richly imaginative "sleepy stories" they createEach story told in Sleepy Stories drifts deeper into a beguiling

A masterful collection about intimacy, loneliness, and time, each inspired by different works of art, spanning the entirety of the great Italian writer’s career.In Stories with Pictures, Antonio Tabuc

Andrea Bajani’s “beautiful, original, and deeply moving” (Michael Cunningham) novel, which Jhumpa Lahiri asserts “accumulates with the quiet urgency of a snowstorm.”A prismatic novel that records the

The first volume in a series of graphic novel adaptations of Ashok Banker's epic retelling of the Ramayana.Prince of Ayodhya begins with Rama and Lakshman's youth. Accompanied by Rishi Vishwamitra, th

Peter Bush, winner of the Ramon Llull Prize for Literary Translation, brings to English this most prolific and influential of Catalan writers.Dripping with a panache that can turn in a comic instant t

Winner of the 2016 Bologna Ragazzi Award, My Little One is a series of sparse and rhythmic images drawn in simple grey pencil, measuring like a metronome the boundless love between mother and son.A mo

Geoffrey Brock, whose translations have won him Poetry magazine’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, finally does justice to these slim, concentrated verses in his English

Lawrence Venuti, winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Global Humanities Translation Prize, among many other awards, has translated into English these Italian Gothic tales of obsessive love, myste

The stories in Igifu summon phantom memories of Rwanda and radiate with the fierce ache of a survivor. From the National Book Award finalist who Zadie Smith says, “rescues a million souls from the col

Grappling with his son’s death, the painter David explores his grief through art and writing, etching out the rippled landscape of his loss.Over twenty years after his son’s death, nearly blind and un

In this deeply personal journey of discovery, Ami Ayalon seeks input and perspective from Palestinians and Israelis whose experiences differ from his own. As head of the Shin Bet security agency, he g

A captivating literary and historical record, Jean Giono’s Occupation Journal offers a glimpse into life in collaborationist France during the Second World War, as seen through the eyes and thoughts o

An intimate portrait of childhood during Spain’s violent fascist regime, rendered in a surreal kaleidoscope of linked stories.Serge Pey’s stories are lyrical, vivid vignettes of life during and direct