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The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust by Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa (Simon & Schuster). Reviewed by Kitty Kelley. “The authors are unsparing in describing the unrelenting and unrelieved miseries inflicted by the Nazis in decimating the Jewish population of Poland, which had the largest concentration of Jews in Europe in 1939 — 3.5 million then, fewer than 20,000 today.
Trondheim: A Novel
Can a story about two middle-aged women who spend a week waiting around an ICU for their son to awaken from a coma be engaging, even compelling? Yes — at least if it’s Trondheim, the third novel by Cormac James, an Irish expat living in France. Lillian, a 45-year-old trainer, is carrying sacks of rubble from a DIY remodeling project down four flights of stairs from the apartment in Montpellier, France, she shares with her wife, Alba, a 48-year-old translator, when the phone rings.
Cormac James’s playlist for his novel “Trondheim”
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Cormac James’s novelTrondheim is a profound examination of motherhood and relationships. Kirkus wrote of the book: “Extraordinary and meticulous. . . .
Trondheim
288 pages List Price US $17.99 ISBN: 9781954276239 Ebook “Delicately and deeply probes the mothers and their relationship.” Katie Kitamura, New York Times Book Review ( — link) see more reviews hide reviews “Extraordinary and meticulous. . . . An X-ray picture of the subcutaneous breaks and sprains in a rocky relationship.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ( — link) “Compelling throughout. . . .
Book Review: ‘Trondheim,’ by Cormac James
TRONDHEIM, by Cormac James Alba is a translator. Lil is a personal trainer. Alba deals with anxiety by counting rosary beads; Lil, with bouts of intense, at times bruising, physical training. Together, they are the parents of three children. One day, they receive a phone call: Their son Pierre, who lives abroad in Trondheim, had a cardiac arrest at a bus stop and now lies in a coma at a hospital. And so, the nightmare begins.
Trondheim a book by Cormac James
(Author) FORMAT Paperback$17.99$16.73(English) Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller A son's collapse pulls his two mothers together and apart in a novel that probes the limits of love, hope, and forgiveness In Norway, thousands of miles from home, a student drops dead on the street. A passerby revives his heart, but he remains in a coma from which he may never wake.
A Contemplative Novel Set in the I.C.U.
What to Read Find Your Next Book March Releases Critics' Reviews Editors' Choice 100 Notable Books What to Read Find Your Next Book March Releases Critics' Reviews Editors' Choice 100 Notable Books In his new novel, "Trondheim," the author Cormac James explores the terrible dread and peculiar quality of watching over a loved one in the hospital. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. TRONDHEIM, by Cormac James Alba is a translator.
How do I explain death honestly to my five-year-old son? – Cormac James | Aeon Essays
I have a good arsenal of strategies to dip into when my five-year-old son tells me: ‘Dad, I don’t want to have a bath’ or ‘Dad, I don’t want to go to school’. In fact, it feels like the past few years have been a schooling in communications and sales strategy, for a particularly difficult customer. But when he told me recently: ‘Dad, I don’t want to die’, I found I didn’t have a pitch. I didn’t even have anything I wanted to sell. I wish I did.
Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin: Die dunklen Wirbel des Meeres
Das Meer stiftet seit jeher zum Erzählen an. Von Homers „Odyssee“ bis zu Herman Melvilles „Moby Dick“ ist es ein riesiges Reservoir von Geschichten über den Kampf des Menschen mit der Natur. Im Zeitalter von Klimawandel, Massenflucht und Vergiftung des Meeres reichen sie nicht mehr aus. Das Internationale Literaturfestival Berlin hat unter dem Motto „Reading the Currents – Stories from the 21st Century Sea“ ein umfangreiches Projekt kuratiert, bei dem Schriftsteller auf Meeresforscher treffen.
PEN American Center
This week in the Guernica/PEN Flash Series, we feature a piece by Cormac James, who is participating in this year's PEN World Voices Festival. Subscribe to the series and get new flash delivered to your inbox twice a month—no spam or news, just stories. I don’t know what exactly it is, but I have something in my ear. I think of it as some kind of scab, and know well it’s not. The idea of a scab must be reassuring, I suppose. Preferable, apparently, to whatever it serves to conceal.
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