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Now in paperback and "brimming with wondrous surprises . . . There's magic in The Pinch" (The Boston Globe)Steve Stern's prodigious imagination finds a wondrous home in the Pinch, a once-thriving Jewish community in Memphis. The Pinch revolves around a single enchanted day containing years, during which the antics of a group of Jewish mystics threaten to ravage the life of general store proprietor Pinchas Pin with miracles, and his nephew Muni...

An oral history of those who suffered through the Pinochet years in Chile and the way those years are viewed in present-day Chile.

Considers Pinochet's Chile, and the struggle between the state and its critics over how to remember traumatic events that demanded cultural, moral, and political recognition.

Considers Pinochet's Chile, and the struggle between the state and its critics over how to remember traumatic events that demanded cultural, moral, and political recognition.

The third volume in the trilogy "The Memory Box of Pinochet's Chile" that discusses the aftermath following the departure of the dictator.

The third volume in the trilogy "The Memory Box of Pinochet's Chile" that discusses the aftermath following the departure of the dictator.

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The "New York Times" has called Steve Stern "a prodigiously talented writer who arrives unheralded like one of the apparitions in his own stories." The "Philadelphia Inquirer" has said, "Steve Stern is an astonishing writer." Whatever the source, the critics agree that Stern offers immense delight, and outright laughs, throughout his award-winning books. "The Wedding Jester" offers a new chance to journey to Stern's magical Jewish otherworld--...

Award-winning novelist Steve Stern's exhilarating epic recounts the story of how a nineteenth-century rabbi from a small Polish town ends up in a basement freezer in a suburban Memphis home at the end of the twentieth century. What happens when an impressionable teenage boy inadvertently thaws out the ancient man and brings him back to life is nothing short of miraculous.

Steve Stern returns with lyrically comic tales about the Pinch, a backwater Jewish community in Memphis, whose misbegotten citizens refer to themselves as 'the lost tribe.' Stern's dreamers are plagued by history, lust, solitude, and the extravagance of their own fevered imaginations.

Here the voice of the Lord rises up from gas burners and out of pay phones. Here is a land in which a host of very different characters share a common tendency to ignore the usually agreed-upon bonds of reality.