This is the first book I read
by this author. A brilliant merger of stories by real people who meet
in childhood and come together later on to create an amazing world of video
games.
Their lives are real, in a flawed world where they experience tragedies
and triumphs. They grow, cope, and change in the next thirty years. Build
fantastical games where the players escape to. An imaginary world, where
death means you get to start over, get another chance at life. In the last
decade it appears the lines are blurred, real people instead of existing
in a real world believe they live in a video game. The fantasy world of a video
game becomes their reality, minimizing this art form.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow takes us on a dazzling imaginative quest, examining identity, creativity and our need to connect.
This is not a romance, but it is about love.
'I just love this book and I hope you love it too' JOHN GREEN, TikTok
Sam and Sadie meet in a hospital in 1987. Sadie is visiting her sister, Sam is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there, but playing together brings joy, escape, fierce competition -- and a special friendship. Then all too soon that time is…
Pope Ratzinger, was the one who opened the Vatican’s archives to
researchers, under lock and key until then. The documents hidden for
centuries are finally seeing the light of day and this book is the result.
Painstakingly researched, the facts put to rest the Churches' long denial, that
it had no role in spreading Antisemitism. The conduct of the Church and the
Popes with regard to the Jews can no longer be overlooked, the
tragic consequences that followed was the Holocaust. The Vatican's
role and the centuries-old Antisemitism are accounted for, the exposed
data speaks for itself.
A groundbreaking historical study based on documents previously locked in the Vatican’s secret archives: The Popes Against the Jews graphically shows how the Catholic Church helped make the Holocaust possible.
Pope John Paul II, as part of his effort to improve Catholic-Jewish relations, has himself called for a clear-eyed historical investigation into any possible link be-tween the Church and the Holocaust. An important sign of his commitment was the recent decision to allow the distinguished historian David I. Kertzer, a specialist in Italian history, to be one of the first scholars given access to long-sealed Vatican archives.
What happened to our parents and grandparents had an
impact on so many of us. Evident among the second generation of writers,
among them Jonathan Safran Foer, the novel, Everything is Illuminated.
By means of dark
humor, the author illuminates on the horrors of WWII, which are going to
haunt the reader forever. The ghosts of the past are given a voice. The good, bad, and ugly are all accounted for. The guiding principle here is that the past is our guide to the future. Without memory there is no history, each generation inherits
history from the generation before, it tells, how as a society we behave and
how we change.
This is the story of a young man who visits the Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. In turns hilarious and harrowing, lit with a manic energy, it is narrated in part by a Ukranian translator, who has a murderous approach to the English language, and in part by the young man, who reanimates the lives of his grandfather and ancestors. Eventually the past meets the present, as fiction collides with reality in an unforgettable climax. With breathtaking inventiveness and narrative control, Jonathan Safran Foer has written a book about searching - for people…
Memory is Our Home is a powerful biographical memoir based on the diaries of Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc, who was born in Warsaw before the end of World War I, grew up during the interwar period and who, after escaping the atrocities of World War II, was able to survive in the vast territories of Soviet Russia and Uzbekistan. Translated by her own daughter, interweaving her own recollections as her family made a new life in the shadows of the Holocaust in Communist Poland after the war and into the late 1960s, this book is a rich, living document, a riveting account of a vibrant young woman's courage and endurance. This book, narrated in a compelling, unique voice through two generations, is the proverbial candle needed to keep memory alive.
