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Cynthia Ozick is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist. Her writings are often about Jewish American life, but she also writes about politics, history, and literary criticism. In addition, she has written and translated poetry. Highly awarded, Ozick has received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the National book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Nabokov Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award; she has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, the Orange Prize, and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize. David Foster Wallace called Ozick one of the greatest living American writers, and she has been described as "the Athena of America's literary pantheon", the "Emily Dickinson of the Bronx," and "one of the most accomplished and graceful literary stylists of her time."
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Trying to escape his Jewish past with the Holocaust, Luchinski is a Polish man who serves as a UN diplomat to an African country. He encounters people who and experiences that encourage him come to terms with his identity and past, but shows little signs of change.
In modern day NYC, an unmarried, fifty-something-year-old lawyer takes a year off work to contemplate her fate and plunges into an obsession with the life of the 19th century writer George Eliot—and with recreating Eliot's lifelong love affair.
Burdened by the memories of her time in Nazi-occupied Poland, a woman destroys her antique shop in New York and moves to Florida, but is still haunted by a persistent researcher and visions of her deceased daughter.
A Russian emigre calls a long-lost relative in New York asking for asylum. Her strange, self-sabotaging actions call into question her real intentions.
A lawyer working in New York comes across a mysterious woman on the docks who comes to claim him as her own and reinvent his life.
A starving young teenager struggles to survive with her infant on their march towards a Nazi concentration camp. However, another prisoner plots to steal the teenage mom's magical shawl on which the infant relies.
An older Jewish man living in America becomes increasingly jealous of a fellow writer as his Yiddish poetry is continuously rejected by publishers, while his colleague's short stories are translated into English and earn him fame and success.