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11 books

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Brothers

Bernice Rubens

Generations of a Jewish family confront persecution, migration and the demands of survival.

Historical fiction
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Chernobyl

Frederik Pohl

The Chernobyl catastrophe is reimagined through personal lives and institutional decisions.

Historical fiction
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Diary of an Invasion

Andrey Kurkov

Kurkov’s wartime dispatches follow everyday life and displacement during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Diary
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Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman

Wartime lives around Stalingrad expose the human pressures of Nazism and Stalinism.

Historical fiction
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The Family Mashber

Der Nister

A Jewish family’s conflicts open onto nineteenth-century Berdychiv’s divided community.

Historical fiction
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The Kindly Ones

Jonathan Littell

An SS officer moves through occupied Soviet territories, Stalingrad, the institutions of extermination and the collapse of Nazi Germany.

Historical fiction
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