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Attorney Alan Dershowitz's latest
thriller, The Trials of Zion (Grand
Central Publishing), looks at the mod-
em Middle East as the internal conflicts
of the troubled region threaten to erupt
in unprecedented violence and a young
Jewish-American lawyer joins the
defense team of an arrested but possibly
innocent Palestinian.
In Displaced Persons (William
Morrow), author Ghita Schwartz, the
daughter of postwar Jewish refugees
in New York City, tells the story of four
Polish Jews — Pavel, Fela, Sima and
Chaim — in three distinct periods of
their lives: their first meeting in the
Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp,
their early attempts at family normalcy
in the U.S. and their late-in-life project
of memorializing their own histories.
David Albahari's tragicomic thriller
Leeches (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
reflects the uncertainty of late-1990s
life in Serbia as a single, pot-smoking
op-ed columnist for a Belgrade newspa-
per receives a strange manuscript that
drives him into a study of anti-Semitism
in Belgrade past and present, provoking
an outrage that ignites an underground
world of secret societies and a scandal
that erupts in murder.
For fans of vampire lit, Sarah Jane
Stratford's The Midnight Guardian (St.
Martin's paperback) follows the beauti-
ful and cunning vampire Brigit, who
must escape from Germany while pro-
tecting a shocking and dangerous cargo
vital to the success of the vampires over
the Nazis.
In The Social Climber's Handbook
(Villard), a satiric novel from Molly
Jong-Fast (daughter of writers Erica
Jong and Jonathan Fast) set amid the
financial collapse of 2008, serial killer
Daisy Greenbaum tries to keep home,
hearth and her Upper East Side social
life intact.
In another comedic novel inspired by
the financial crisis, The Best Laid Plans
(Random House), Lynne Schnurnberger
writes about a Manhattan stay-at-home
mom faced with returning to work who
opens an over-40 escort agency with
successful and hilarious results.
Jerusalem Maiden (Harper paper-
back) by Talia Carner tells the story of
Esther Kaminsky, raised in a fervently
Orthodox home in the waning days of
the Ottoman Empire, as she struggles to
maintain her religious duties as a young
wife while nourishing her own creative
aspirations, finally asking the question:
To whom must she be true, to God or to
herself?
Portrait of a Spy (Harper; July 19,
2011), Daniel Silva's yearly novel fea-
turing protagonist Gabriel Allon is set
once again between the worlds of art
and intelligence as Allon confronts a
new face of global terror: an American-
born cleric in Yemen.
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the author of Ragtime.
Considered a master of "flash" or
micro-fiction, Israeli author Alex
Epstein is out with his second trans-
lated short-story collection, Lunar
Savings Time (Clockroot Books), 99
stories of less than a page each that
move through time and space. He
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time to visit a psychoanalyst, of Kafka
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