Eva Figes and her family fled the horror of Nazi Germany when Eva was only six, forced to leave behind them friends, relatives, and their housemaid, Edith. Ten years later, Edith suddenly re-emerged in their lives. Having miraculously survived wartime Berlin, she had reluctantly emigrated to hostile, volatile Palestine. Recounting Edith’s story, Figes boldly argues that Israel was a product of U.S. foreign policy and continuing and widespread anti-Semitism. Part memoir, part brave polemic, this is both a moving account of post-war displacement and a fierce attack on America’s role in the Middle East.

The novelist and author of Waking offers a memoir of her grandmother, discussing her special relationship with fairy tales and her flight from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: In acclaimed author Eva Figes' inventive reshaping of the pop psychological thriller, her fifth novel opens as Nelly Dean, a middle-aged woman suffering from amnesia, checks into a small-town hotel with a suitcase full of cash and no idea where it - or she - came from...read more

Product Description: In this moving and readable anthology, acclaimed writer Eva Figes has collected a wonderfully diverse range of women’s letters penned over the last 500 years, during times of war. Their words reveal a warmth, strength, and combative spirit that reminds us how vital a role they have played in war...read more

Deborah Milton--the widowed daughter of the great English poet--laments her life in a world where a bright, intelligent, capable young woman cannot make her aspirations come true. Reprint. NYT.

Through the four seasons of a single year an aging, unnamed woman comes to terms with her grown children, her former lover, her memories, and her unsettling present

Discusses the role Greek, Elizabethan, and later tragedy played in society, as well as society's effect on the drama, with regard to tribal belief, kingship, the dead, women, and social order

Product Description: Monet in his garden at Giverny is the subject of this book. The author describes the changing light, the intensifying, somnolent heat of a summer's day, and its sinking back into the cool quiet of dusk. Other works by the author include "Winter Journey" and "Patriarchial Attitudes"...read more

Product Description: Book by Figes, Eva

The author, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, describes the time she spent at a small, unconventional school in an English country town

Tells the story of England from a woman's point of view, as seen through the mind of a modern midwife

Product Description: Book by Figes, Eva

Creates an unusual, incisive portrait of a woman, focusing on seven mornings in her life that reveal her changing perceptions and goals as she moves from early childhood to old age