New Releases by E. L. Doctorow

Daniel Isaacson ist der Sohn jüdischer Eltern mit kommunistischer Überzeugung. Sie wurden der Spionage verdächtigt, in einem aufsehenerregenden Prozess zum Tode verurteilt und hingerichtet. Der damals vierzehnjährige Daniel und seine neunjährige Schwester Susan wurden von Pflegeeltern adoptiert. Seither sind Jahre vergangen. Der Roman spielt 1967 und beginnt mit Daniels Reise zu Susan, die nach einem Suizidversuch in eine psychiatrische Klinik eingeliefert wurde. Ihre Verzweiflung zerstört Daniels bisherige Anstrengungen, die grauenvollen Kindheitserinnerungen zu verdrängen. Er versteht nun, dass er die Vorgänge um die Verdächtigung, die Verhaftung und Verurteilung seiner Eltern wieder aufrollen muss. Dabei gibt er sich nicht nur mit den Bildern zufrieden, die ihm aus der Kindheit im Gedächtnis geblieben sind. In seiner Spurensuche rekonstruiert er auch systematisch den Prozess und die Strategie des Verteidigers, prüft die Schuld der Personen, die seine Eltern denunziert hatten, und erforscht dabei das politische Bewusstsein seiner eigenen Generation. E. L. Doctorow, der mit diesem Roman "in die erste Reihe zeitgenössischer amerikanischer Autoren aufgerückt ist" (New York Times), benutzt das historische Material des während der McCarthy-Ära geführten Prozesses gegen Ethel und Julius Rosenberg wegen angeblicher Atomspionage als Idee zu seinem fesselnden, auch heute wieder hochaktuellen Roman. Der Roman wurde 1983 von Sidney Lumet unter dem Titel "Daniel" verfilmt.

Bine aţi venit în America începutului de secol XX, unde ragtime-ul stabileşte ritmul. Harry Houdini uimeşte publicul cu eliberările lui spectaculoase, J.P. Morgan domină lumea finanţelor, iar Henry Ford construieşte automobile, transformând oamenii în maşini. Emma Goldman predică amorul liber şi feminismul, iar o fostă dansatoare în musicaluri, Evelyn Nesbit, este scânteia care declanşează asasinarea unui mare arhitect de către un milionar nebun. Vieţile acestor personaje reale se întrepătrund cu cele ale unui negustor ambulant evreu, unui muzician de culoare şi unui tânăr rebel din clasa de mijloc, pentru a crea un mozaic literar fascinant. „Un roman extraordinar de intens, liric şi pătrunzător, ce surprinde spiritul american... într-un fel muzical şi fluid care este pe cât de original, pe atât de plăcut.” The New Yorker Carte inclusă de Modern Library printre cele mai bune 100 de romane ale secolului XX Clasici moderni Litera pune laolalta scriitori moderni ale caror opere au devenit deja repere clasice. Cele mai importante, mai provocatoare, mai emotionante, mai revolutionare opere din ultimii 125 de ani – ci care vor continua sa fie citite de la o generatie la alta.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With brilliant and audacious strokes, E. L. Doctorow creates a breathtaking collage of memories, events, visions, and provocative thought, all centered on an idea of the modern reality of God. At the heart of this stylistically daring tour de force is a detective story about a cross that vanishes from a rundown Episcopal church in lower Manhattan only to reappear on the roof of an Upper West Side synagogue. Intrigued by the mystery—and by the maverick rector and the young rabbi investigating the strange act of desecration—is a well-known novelist, whose capacious brain is a virtual repository for the ideas and disasters of the age. Daringly poised at the junction of the sacred and the profane, filled with the sights and sounds of New York, and encompassing a large cast of vividly drawn characters including theologians, scientists, Holocaust survivors, and war veterans, City of God is a monumental work of spiritual reflection, philosophy, and history by America’s preeminent novelist and chronicler of our time. Praise for City of God “A grander perspective on the universe . . . a novel that sets its sights on God.”—The Wall Street Journal “Dazzling . . . The true miracle of City of God is the way its disparate parts fuse into a consistently enthralling and suspenseful whole.”—Time “Blooms with humor, and a humanity that carries triumphant as intelligent a novel as one might hope to find these days.”—Los Angeles Times “Radiates [with] panoramic ambition and spiritual incandescence.”—Chicago Tribune “One of the greatest American novels of the past fifty years . . . Reading City of God restores one’s faith in literature.”—The Houston Chronicle

Cuando le habla a un interlocutor desconocido, Andrew está pensando, hablando, contándonos la historia de su vida, sus amores y las tragedias que lo han llevado a este momento y lugar concretos. A medida que va confesando y que va quitando capas a su extraña historia, nos vemos forzados a cuestionarnos lo que sabemos de la verdad y la memoria, del cerebro y la mente, la personalidad y el destino, sobre el otro y nosotros mismos. Escrito con profundidad y precisión lírica, esta novela que juega con el suspense y experimentación formal resulta perfecta para nuestros tiempos: divertida, incisiva, escéptica, traviesa y profunda. El cerebro de Andrew es un giro de tuerca y un logro singular en la obra de un autor cuya prosa tiene el poder de crear su propio paisaje y cuyo gran tema, en palabras de Don DeLillo es ?el alcance del concepto de lo posible en Estados Unidos, en que cabe que vidas ordinarias adopten la cadencia que marca historia'.

Read, listen, and sing along to the timeless poetry of togetherness and diversity in this new songbook by Dawud Wharnsby. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Shireen Adams, and with a free audio CD, children and adults will be inspired and absorbed for hours. Smiles, warm and shining, like the sun upon our faces.Hope as rich and green as the trees of an oasis.The colours of Islam bloom in so many places,So many different colours of Islam. Fill the world with colour, paint it everywhere you go.Paint everything you see, and tell everyone you know.Qur'an will be your paint, and your brush will be iman,So fill the world with colour, every colour of Islam. Dawud Wharnsby was born in Canada in 1972. He has been writing stories, songs, and poems for people of all ages for many years. When he is not traveling to sing with audiences around the world, he loves being with his family—hiking in the mountains near his home, growing vegetables, and fixing things that get broken around the house. Dawud lives in Kitchener, Ontario.

Over the years, one of America's most acclaimed novelists has quietly produced some of the best essays in the land. In these 16 reflections upon American texts, Doctorow shows us the hidden connections between our poets and our presidents, our classic literary works and the lyrics of popular songs, the ways of 19th-century New York and the way we live now. Each one carries with it the remarkable talents of the novelist and suggests that the proper practice of letters knows no bounds. This selection of essays is preeminently concerned with the character of America -- who we are and why we are this way.

In post-Civil War New York City, a young pedestrian recognizes his supposedly dead father riding in a passing horse-drawn omnibus. By the author of Ragtime. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

It is the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a passionate young man from Paterson, New Jersey, leaves home to find his fortune. What he finds, on a cold and lonely night in the Adirondack Mountains, is a vision of life so different from his own that it changes his destiny, leading him from the side of a railroad track to a magical place called Loon Lake. "From the Paperback edition.