Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But when Eliza sweeps her school and district spelling bees in quick succession, Saul takes it as a sign that she is destined for greatness. In this altered reality,...

The marriage of an Iranian couple begins to disintegrate as the husband seeks the company of a younger and wealthier woman, and the young daughter, Yaas, who narrates the story, becomes increasingly deaf as she struggles for her mother's approval.

The unnamed narrator recalls a summer spent on an idyllic island off the coast of Naples in the 1950's, when he was just sixteen. There he spends his days with Nicola, a local fisherman, who shares his love of the sea and his memories of war with the boy. There too he falls in love with Caia, a Jewish girl who had been saved by Italian soldiers from the Nazis, who killed the rest of her Yugoslav family. Outraged by what he's learned of war and Italy's...

"Huyendo por su vida de los nazis, Monique, una joven judía de diecisiete años, escapa por las calles de París en busca de un lugar donde esconderse. En un sótano oscuro en lo profundo de la ciudad, Philip, un hombre de la Resistencia, le ofrece un trato para salvar su vida cambiando su identidad. A cambio, necesita proporcionar información sobre los alemanes al familiarizarse con ellos. Dividida entre sus sentimientos por Philip y su miedo a...