Jacob the Liar: A Novel-50th Anniversary Edition SS_Gift_Guide A New York Times and

A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year“Assured and formidable

This treasure trove of folktales

Menchú vividly conveys the traditional beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas

A lyrical gay coming-of-age story first published in 1951

but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love

Jacob the Liar: A Novel-50th Anniversary Edition SS_Gift_Guide A New York Times andOne of the most remarkable novels of the Holocaust ever written, and the basis of the 1999 major motion picture starring Robin Williams. A novel about the Holocaust "that has never been surpassed" (Times Literary Supplement), Jacob the Liar is a now classic work from one of the giants of German postwar literature and a tale of everyday heroism and the extraordinary power of illusion. In the ghetto, possession of a radio is punishable by death. Like