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The hakawati by rabih alameddine6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() My favorite Sebald-well, for this week at least. When Pavel’s father and brothers are taken to a concentration camp and the Nazis confiscate the family’s small lake, the boy is forced to steal the lake’s fish from under the noses of the watchful SS. A heartfelt, affecting, miraculous memoir of youth. How I Came to Know Fish by Ota Pavel (Penguin UK, $17). ![]() Magris has the ability to make history’s bit players sparkle on the page he breathes life into Jason and Medea, as well as an Istrian fisherman who evaded conscription by Mussolini’s Fascists and Tito’s Communists. Microcosms deals with the writer’s homeland, the borderlands between Italy and what is now Croatia. Microcosms by Claudio Magris (out of print). Every time I read this novel on the Sephardic Jewish diaspora, I feel I am doing so for the first time. I have read each of the books on this list at least three times, and I mentioned this because Sepharad continues to dazzle in a peculiar way. Sepharad by Antonio Muñoz Molina (Harvest, $22). ![]()
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