Ralph Manheim Libros

Death on the Installment Plan is the story of young Ferdinand's first 18 years. His life is one of hatred, of the grinding struggle of small shopkeepers to survive, of childhood sensations and fantasies - lusty, scatological, violent, but also poetic. There is a running battle with his ineffectual insurance clerk of a father, with his mother, who lives and whines around the junkshop she runs for the boys benefit; there is also the superbly funny Meanwell College in England, where the boy went briefly, a Dickensian, nightmare institution. Always there is humiliation, failure, and boredom, at least until he teams up with the "scientist" des Pereires. This inventor, con-man, incorrigible optimist - whose last project is to grow enormous potatoes by electricity - rescues him, if only temporarily; for the reader he is one of the most lovable charlatans in French literature.

A haunting classic from the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, Shadows in Paradise reveals the deepest scars of the men and women who experienced the Holocaust. After years of hiding and surviving near death in a concentration camp, Ross is finally safe. Now living in New York City among old friends, far from Europe’s chilling atrocities, Ross soon meets Natasha, a beautiful model and fellow émigré, a warm heart to help him forget his cold memories. Yet even as the war draws to its violent close, Ross cannot find peace. Demons still pursue him. Whether they are ghosts from the past or the guilt of surviving, he does not know. For he is only beginning to understand that freedom is far from easy—and that paradise, however perfect, has a price. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review

La Emperatriz Infantil está mortalmente enferma y su reino corre un grave peligro. La salvación depende de Atreyu, un valiente guerrero de la tribu de los pieles verdes, y Bastian, un niño tímido que lee con pasión un libro mágico. Mil aventuras les llevarán a reunirse y a conocer una fabulosa galería de personajes, y juntos dar forma a una de las grandes creaciones de la literatura de todos los tiempos.

Con La vida ante sí, Romain Gary obtuvo, bajo el seudónimo Émile Ajar, su segundo Goncourt, un honor único ya que este premio solo puede concederse una vez. Una vieja prostituta judía, superviviente de Auschwitz, regenta en el barrio parisino de Belleville una casa donde crecen los hijos no deseados de las prostitutas. Momo es uno de ellos. A través de su mirada infantil, con grandes dosis de ironía y ternura, el lector descubre el mundo sórdido que le rodea y la decrepitud de la mujer que le ha hecho de madre. Uno de los libros más interesantes de la literatura francesa contemporánea de las últimas décadas.

Margarete Buber, the journalist daughter of Martin Buber, and Milena Jesenska, the beautiful lover of Kafka, met in Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1940. For four terrible years, the two women formed an extraordinary bond and made a pact that if only one survived, the other would bear witness. Only Margarete lived to remember. This is her story of Milena--of fearless love, sacrifice, and nobility.

Gevoelens en ervaringen van een Joodse kleuter, die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog met zijn ouders enkele jaren in een concentratiekamp doorbrengt.