A Grain of Truth

Susan Sontag writes: “Of the novelists I have discovered in translation . . . the three for whom I have the greatest admiration are Gabriel Garci?a Ma?rquez, Peter Handke, and Yoram Kaniuk.“

At eighty-five, Teo is ready to retire from the bombast and romance of life as one of the worlds most influential choreographers. But when he meets Vivi, a fortyish waitress at a Tel Aviv cafÉ, the fires of his youth flare back to life-his passion for a womans touch, his long-buried anguish at his wartime experiences, and his complex engagement with dance. Vivis life will change, too, as the warmth of Teos affection counterbalances her harrowing time as an Israeli soldier in an illicit relationship. For both, their investment in art, and indeed in life itself, will reawaken as the ghosts of their suppressed pasts-from Warsaw to Copenhagen, Berlin to Tel Aviv-cry out for forgiveness and healing.

With lustrous prose capturing the grit and fury of history and the breathtaking power of passion, When We Danced on Water is a compelling novel of intimacy and identity, art and ambition, and how love can truly transcend tragedy.

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Part of the Jewish Encounter series

Israel’s current president gives us a dramatic and revelatory biography of Israel’s founding father and first prime minister.
 
Shimon Peres was in his early twenties when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that Ben-Gurion would lead through war and peace had not yet declared its precarious independence, the “Old Man,” as he was called even then, was already a mythic figure. Peres, who came of age in the cabinets of Ben-Gurion, is uniquely placed to evoke this figure of stirring contradictions—a prophetic visionary and a canny pragmatist who early grasped the necessity of compromise for national survival. Ben-Gurion supported the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, though it meant surrendering a two-thousand-year-old dream of Jewish settlement in the entire land of Israel. He granted the Orthodox their first exemptions from military service despite his own deep secular commitments, and he reached out to Germany in the aftermath of the Holocaust, knowing that Israel would need as many strong alliances as possible within the European community.
 
A protégé of Ben-Gurion and himself a legendary figure on the international political stage, Shimon Peres brings to his account of Ben-Gurion’s life and towering achievements the profound insight of a statesman who shares Ben-Gurion’s dream of a modern, democratic Jewish nation-state that lives in peace and security alongside its Arab neighbors. In Ben-Gurion, Peres sees a neglected model of leadership that Israel and the world desperately need in the twenty-first century.

The US debut of acclaimed UK mystery writer Colin Campbell

When he lands at Logan International to extradite a small-time thug, the first thing rogue UK cop Jim Grant does is buy a map. The second is get laid. Third is almost get himself killed interviewing Freddy Sullivan, the prisoner he flew from England to question. In the midst of a few distractions — beautiful strippers, ruthless criminals, an armed standoff complete with SWAT teams, snipers, and live television coverage — Grant discovers the truth about Sullivan’s dangerous sideline. With the assistance of troubled ex-marine John Cornejo, a little help from police detective Sam Kincaid, and the sensuous ministrations of Terri Avellone, Grant must survive being shot, stabbed, and blown up to save Boston from a catastrophe no one saw coming.

Praise for Colin Campbell’s work:

“Very real. And very good.” —Lee Child

“Enough gritty realism to make your eyes water, and a few savage laughs along the way.” —Reginald Hill