Recent Reads (by Jewish Authors)
Discover captivating recent reads by Jewish authors, featuring Nicole Krauss's *History of Love*, Jonathan Safran Foer's *Everything Is Illuminated*, and David Grossman's *The Zigzag Kid*. Explore acclaimed fiction and literary works in this curated book list for thoughtful readers.
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History of Love
by Nicole Krauss
Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
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The Zigzag Kid
by David Grossman
The picaresque adventures of Annon Feuerberg, 12, an Israeli policeman's son kidnaped by his father's arch-enemy, a master thief. The thief takes Annon on a number of jobs and introduces him to beauty in the person of a young actress.
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Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.
