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Noir Press Diary of a Jewish Girl
The Diary of a Jewish Girl tells the story of Esther Levinsonaite, a Jewish girl in occupied Lithuania during World War Two and the immediate post-war years. Naked and bloody, having dug herself from a mass grave, Esther drags herself to the house Vladas and Milda on their wedding night. The two teachers take the girl in, sheltering her through the troubles. It is also the story of a luxurious sofa, in which, before the war, Esther hid her diary. The novel is an exploration of a commitment to living a happy life, despite the madness and danger of the world. It is a novel about resurrection both physical and spiritual. It's a story of strength, courage and the victory of the weak. And of the stubbornness of resistance.
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Noir Press Breathing into Marble
Breathing into Marble is a dark and poetic story of love, family, deception and death. It won the 2009 EU prize for Literature.
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Noir Press Shtetl Love Song
Shtetl Love Song is a requiem for the pre-war Jewish shtetl, for a people and a way of life that was destroyed. Set in the rural Lithuanian landscape on the eve of World War II, `Shtetl Love Song' is full of tender affection, soft irony, and sharp observations. Guided by the memory of his beloved mother, the masterful narrator takes us into the very midst of his enchanted family world, recreating the past that is irrevocably destroyed and yet fully alive in his memory. Kanovich, himself a child of a Lithuanian shtetl who survived the Holocaust almost by a miracle, made it his mission to serve, against all odds, as a custodian of the collective memory of generations of Litvaks, Lithuanian Jews.' - Mikhail Krutikov, Professor of Slavic and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The novel won the Liudas Dovydenas Prize awarded by the Lithuanian Writers' Union. Winner the Liudo Dovydeno Prize awarded by the Lithuanian Writers' Union
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Noir Press The Last Day - Jaroslavas Melnikas: Contemporary Lithuanian Classics
Winner of BBC Book of the Year, Ukraine Jura finds that the favourite rooms in his house, each designed to reflect an aspect of his personality, are disappearing one by one. He remembers perfectly well playing the piano in `The Grand Piano Room'. However, the other members of his family deny the room ever existed. In `The Last Day' a family discovers an app that tells them on which day one of them will die. A man receives letters from God giving him choices which throw him into a moral dilemma. In this award-winning collection of stories, `Melnikas questions the taboos that limit human freedom.' Lire Jaroslavas Melnikas is one of the most inventive and interesting Ukrainian and Lithuanian writers today. La Croix wrote of him, `He meditates, like Dostoyevsky, on the relationship between sin and freedom.'
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