Curt Leviant

• Dec-1978
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• Apr-1983
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• Dec-1990
• / Historical
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• Jan-1999
• / Suspense
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In this comic-tragedy, Tommy Manning goes to Venice as blithely assured as if he were the lead male in An Affair To Remember. But his rendezvous isn't quite working out like a Hollywood script. For instance, this haunting young woman named Happy -- j...

• Dec-2000
• / General Fiction
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“A comedy of errors [and] bedroom farce” from an award-winning author critically acclaimed for his satiric stories of love and Jewish experience (Kirkus Reviews).   Reunited at their Jewish day school reunion, Guido and Charlie find the...

• Nov-2002
• / General Fiction
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Filled with Curt Leviant's signature blend of humor and drama, these two enchanting and original novellas lure readers into a dazzling storybook world.    "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet" is s...

• Apr-2003
• / General Fiction
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The fable has a 3000-year-old tradition in Jewish literature, going back to the Bible and the Talmud. Other works of fables abound in the long stream of Hebrew literature, but it was not until the advent of the illustrious poet and fabulist, 'Eliezer...

• Jul-2003
• / General Fiction
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An English translation of one of the most fascinating works in medieval Hebrew letters. A rarity, this refurbished Hebrew translation of an Arthurian romance is the only known text of its kind in existence. Based on the writings of an anonymous Itali...

• Oct-2008
• / General Fiction
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Masterpieces of Hebrew Literature is a true masterpiece of its own -- one of the few collections in which readers can find important works of Jewish tradition and culture by such authors as Rashi, Maimonides, Judah Halevi, and Joseph Caro, all in one...

• Nov-2008
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-2012
• / Literary
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In Curt Leviant s wry, funny tales of love and desire set in various locales the deep South, Boston, New York, Italy, Israel the protagonists are men, women, guys and gals of various backgrounds and ages. Some are teenagers; others are students, writ...

• Jan-2016
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. Jewish Studies. A serio-comic novel that tells of Shmulik Gafni, a professor of Yiddish. Two narratives contrast: One: Gafni's extended search in Poland for the man who murdered his father in the notorious Kielce pogrom. Two: Gafni's infatua...

• Feb-2016
• / Literary
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Set in New York City and Prague in 1992, Kafka’s Son follows a first-person narrator who is a documentary filmmaker. In a New York synagogue, he meets an elderly Czech Jew named Jiri, once the head of the famous Jewish Museum in Prague, with whom h...

• Dec-2017
• / General Fiction
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Katz or Cats, or How Jesus Became My Rival in Love follows John, a book editor who meets an enigmatic man named Katz on his daily commute into New York. True to form, Katz has a book to pitch―not his own, but his brother’s, an identical twin also...

• Dec-2021
• / General Fiction
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In Venice, the narrator meets two women, one a devout and sensual Parisian, the other, an enigmatic beauty, who is mute but can hear. At the wedding—whoever bride may be—a 17th century rabbi will preside. For in this true fiction, character...

• Dec-2023
• / Fantasy
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While in the archives room of the Siena Municipal Public Library, I noticed a cardboard box labeled Lorenzini? Since Lorenzini wrote Pinocchio under the pen-name Collodi, I opened the box and was astounded to see a handwritten manuscript titled: Tino...

• Feb-2024
• / General Fiction
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An award-winning and celebrated author of ten works of fiction, including Kafka's Son, Curt Leviant is an internationally recognized author whose novels have been translated into five languages and have garnered critical acclaim in France, Belgium, G...