John Cullen
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On August 2, 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small Swedish town to begin his life anew. Having endured the ghetto of Lodz, the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi Germany, his final challenge is to survive the survival. Rosenberg returns to his own childhood to tell the story of his father; it is also the story of the chasm between the world of the child, permeated by the optimism,...
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"In this subtly haunting novel, a married woman confesses her encounter with a mysterious man, which threatens the stilted calm of life in a Paris suburb. Echoing the acclaimed and unsettling film Sundays and Cybèle from 1962, A Sunday in Ville-d'Avray is suffused with the same feeling of disquiet: Two sisters meet as the light is fading in a detached house in Ville-d'Avray, each filled with the memory of their childhood dreams and fears, their insatiable...
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"A striking first novel about the power of a father's love for his son and the heart-wrenching choices we have to make in the face of death. Yanis's world is Pierre, the son he raised as a single parent. For nearly twenty years, Yanis spent his nights as a cabdriver with Pierre always at his side, so as not to miss a moment in each other's company. Yanis and Pierre also share a love of diving--in pursuit of that magical moment when they lose themselves...
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A tale inspired by the life of a top-level undercover spy for the CIA and Italian intelligence services finds Agent Kasper investigating a money-printing operation in North Korea, only to be betrayed by his two governments and subjected to a brutal incarceration.
Agent Kasper is investigating a money-printing operation in North Korea, only to be betrayed by his two governments. While scrappy lawyer Barbara Belli works for his release in Rome, Kasper...