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Exodus is a historical novel by American novelist Leon Uris about the founding of the State of Israel beginning with a compressed retelling of the voyages of the 1947 immigration ship Exodus and describing the histories of the various main characters and the ties of their personal lives to the birth of the new Jewish state.
Refugee is a young adult literature novel by Alan Gratz published by Scholastic Corporation in 2019. The book revolves around three main characters from three different eras: early Nazi Germany , 1980s Cuba , and modern-day Syria .
The book was adapted to film several times. Remarque's anti-war themes led to his condemnation by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as "unpatriotic". He was able to use his literary success and fame to relocate to Switzerland as a refugee, and to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen .
(2000), State of Siege (2003), and Mural (2006). [16] Salman Masalha, a bilingual Arabic-Hebrew writer, translated his book Memory for Forgetfulness into Hebrew. [16] Darwish was impressed by the Iraqi poets Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati and Badr Shakir al-Sayyab. [6] He cited Arthur Rimbaud and Allen Ginsberg as literary influences. [3]
Susan Hartman has delivered a deeper look at Utica’s refugee and immigrant population in her new book. A new book follows years in the lives of Utica refugee families. What the author learned
Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French author. He is best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963), that were both made into award-winning films.
The very name of the book, Story of a Secret State, refers to the Polish Secret State, a political and military entity formed by the union of resistance organizations in occupied Poland that were loyal to the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile in London, encompassed not only military resistance but also underground civilian ...
The Refugees is a 2017 short story collection by Viet Thanh Nguyen. [4] It is Nguyen's first published short story collection and his first book after winning the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer. The eight-story collection, set in different locations in California and Vietnam, earned favorable reviews from critics, particularly for offering ...