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In the Dutch countryside, the war seems far away - but not for Ed, a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland trying to find some safe sanctuary. Compelled to go into hiding in the rural province of Zeeland, he is taken in by a seemingly benevolent family of farmers. But, as Ed comes to realize, the Van't Westeindes are not what they seem.

Draws upon the major intellectual and social issues of Weimar Germany and is a satire of the Berlin work-place and the white-collar workers of the city's mushrooming bureaucracy. The author reflects on the personal relations in the office, his own situation as an employee and human being, and the shifts in the values and ideas of life in Berlin.

Describes the lives of the novel's protagonists in the Lodz Ghetto at the beginning of World War II. Chava Rosenfarb, a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, draws on her own history to create characters who struggle daily to retain a sense of humanity and dignity despite the physical and psychological effects of ghetto life.

Follows the tragic fate of the inhabitants of the ghetto. This book draws on the author's own history to create characters who struggle daily to retain a sense of humanity and dignity despite the physical and psychological effects of ghetto life.

A novel about the tyranny of love over men and women and the unending trials of strength between good and evil in human nature. First published as ""Varulven"" in 1958, its main characters move against the backdrop of Norwegian society from World War I to the 1950s.

On the Brink of the Precipice, the first volume of the trilogy ""The Tree of Life"", describes the lives of the novel's ten protagonists in the Lodz Ghetto before the outbreak of World War II..