This Week's Acquisitions

  • Arabella Edge, The God of Spring (Simon & Schuster, 2008).  Historical novel about both the event that inspired The Raft of the Medusa and the creation of the painting itself.  (eBay)
  • I. J. Singer, The Brothers Ashkenazi (Other Press, 2010).  Reprint of Singer's 1936 novel about the competitive relationship between two Jewish brothers in turn-of-the-century Lodz.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Witold Gombrowicz, Possessed: The Secret of Myslotch (Marian Boyars, 1980).  Gombrowicz plays games with the Gothic.  (I was somewhat taken aback to discover that this was a translation of a translation.)  (Lift Bridge)