LITMIR.BIZ

Student Wendy Goldberg spends a year in Jerusalem questioning the lives of American Jews who “return” both to Israel itself and to traditional religious practices. Are they sincere? Are they happier? The unexpected answers and her experiences (a bus bombing, a funeral, an unexpected suicide, a love affair, a law suit),lead her to reconsider her own true identity.

Подробнее

This novel is inspired by a true historical event. Before Theodore Herzl there was Mordecai Manuel Noah, an American journalist, diplomat, playwright, and visionary. In September 1825 he bought Grand Island, downriver from Niagara Falls, from the local Native Americans as a place of refuge for the Jewish people and called it “Ararat.” But no Jews came. What if they had followed Noah’s call? In Nava Semel’s alternate history Jews from throughout the world flee persecution and come to Ararat. Isra Isle becomes the smallest state in the US. Israel does not exist, and there was no Holocaust. In exploring this what-if scenario, Semel stimulates new thinking about memory, Jewish/Israeli identity, attitudes toward minorities, women in top political positions, and the place of cultural heritage.The novel is divided into three parts. Part 1, a detective story, opens in September 2001 when Liam Emanuel, an Israeli descendant of Noah, learns about and inherits this island. He leaves Israel intending to reclaim this “Promised Land” in America. Shortly after he arrives in America Liam disappears. Simon T. Lenox, a Native American police investigator, tries to recover Israel’s “missing son.” Part 2 flashes back to the time and events surrounding Mordecai Noah’s purchase of the island from the local Native Americans. Part 3 poses an alternate history: the rise of a successful modern Jewish city-state, Isra Isle, on the northern New York and Canadian border—a metropolis that looks remarkably like New York City both before and after 9/11—in which the Jewish female governor campaigns to become president of the United States.Nava Semel has published novels, short stories, poetry, plays, children's books, and a number of TV scripts. Her books have been translated and published in many countries. Her book, Becoming Gershona, received the 1990 National Jewish Book Award in the US.

Подробнее

Set at the contact zones between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, this is a polyphonic novel, an intense and sometimes funny pharmacopeia of love lost and humanity regained; a most original combination of Caribbean noir and science-fiction addressing issues of global relevance including novel takes on ecological/apocalyptical imbalance bound to make an impact.A Caribbean zombie—smart, gentlemanly, financially independent, and a top executive at an important pharmaceutical company—becomes obsessed with finding the formula that would reverse his condition and allow him to become «a real person.» In the process, three of his closest collaborators (cerebral and calculating Isadore, wide-eyed and sentimental Mathilde, and rambunctious Patricia), guide the reluctant and baffled scientist through the unpredictable intersections of love, passion, empathy, and humanity. But the playful maze of jealousy and amorous intrigue that a living being would find easy to negotiate represents an insurmountable tangle of dangerous ambiguities for our «undead» protagonist.Wicked Weeds is put together from Isadore's scrapbook, where she has collected her boss' scientific goals and existential agony, as well as her own reflections about growing up as a Haitian descendant in the Dominican Republic and what it really means to be human. The end result is a precise combination of Caribbean noir and science-fiction, Latin American style.Wicked Weeds, A Zombie Novel combines Cabiya's expertise in fiction, graphic novels and film to create a memorable literary zombie novel of a dead man's search for his lost humanity that can now take its place alongside other leading similar novels like Jonathan Mayberry's Patient Zero, S.G. Browne's Breathers: A Zombie's Lament, Daryl Gregory's Raising Sony Mayhall, World War Z by Max Brooks, and The Reapers Are The Angels by Alden Bell. As for the novel's immersion in orality and Caribbean folk traditions and noir it can very well align with Wade Davis' The Serpent and the Rainbow and Karen Russell's St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.

Подробнее

This book is the quintessential guide for global citizens and their advisers, such as law firms, tax consultants, private banks and family offices. At the same time the handbook is also invaluable for business owners, entrepreneurs and investors who are interested in expanding their horizons.
“The definitive compendium of viable residence and citizenship options worldwide for anyone who is really serious about this topic.” Prof. Dr. Dimitry Kochenov, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; Chairman of Investment Migration Council, Switzerland
“This book could be given to a client as an encompassing introduction to the subject, and, indeed, it is an excellent port of call for a practitioner not dealing with these topics on a daily basis.” STEP Journal
“…the encyclopaedia of residence and citizenship-by-investment programs. It is a most valuable comprehensive reference addressing all questions that may come up when planning residence or citizenship in another country, including the legal, the financial, the personal and the practical.” Ghada Alaltrash, Gulf News, Dubai

Подробнее

Global Residence and Citizenship Programs 2016 provides a comprehensive, systematic analysis and benchmarking of the world’s most relevant investor immigration and citizenship-by-investment programs.
A distinguished panel of independent experts – immigration and citizenship lawyers, economists, country risk experts, academic researchers and other specialists – have created the Global Residence Program Index and the Global Citizenship Program Index as part of the Report. These two Indexes gauge and reflect the relative worth of residence and citizenship programs around the world.
They analyze a broad range of factors to produce an overall global view and ranking of the different investment migration programs on offer. These Indexes are highly relevant to all those interested in alternative residence or citizenship options, but also for industry professionals, private client advisors and others with an interest in the subject, as well as governments of countries who operate such programs.
The Report includes systematic analysis of factors such as immigration law, tax, quality of living, as well as transparency, risk and compliance issues.

Подробнее

People who are afraid of life and of clear reasoning should not read The Contract.
However, those who are looking for satisfactory answers to the most delicate questions that life poses should certainly read this book.
Our history is full of tragic events and strange ideas in politics, science, religion, art and in every other sector of human existence. The consequence of that fact is that people have become completely insensitive – they can hardly be surprised, let alone shocked, by anything anymore.
The Contract is a vividly imagined novel that puts the whole of humankind before a large mirror and demands that it wakes with a start, that each of its members may shudder at the sight of itself.
By the same author as The Window.

Подробнее

This book is the quintessential guide for global citizens and their advisers, such as law firms, tax consultants, private banks and family offices. At the same time the handbook is also invaluable for business owners, entrepreneurs and investors who are interested in expanding their horizons.
“The definitive compendium of viable residence and citizenship options worldwide for anyone who is really serious about this topic.” Professor Dr. Dimitry Kochenov, Chair in EU Constitutional and Citizenship Law, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
“This book could be given to a client as an encompassing introduction to the subject, and, indeed, it is an excellent port of call for a practitioner not dealing with these topics on a daily basis.” STEP Journal
“The Global Residence and Citizenship Handbook is the encyclopaedia of residency and citizenship-by-investment programs. It is a most valuable comprehensive reference addressing all questions that may come up when planning residence or citizenship in another country, including the legal, the financial, the personal and the practical.” Ghada Al Altrash, Gulf News, Dubai

Подробнее

This book is the quintessential guide for global citizens and their advisers, such as law firms, tax consultants, private banks and family offices. At the same time the handbook is also invaluable for business owners, entrepreneurs and investors who are interested in expanding their horizons.
“The definitive compendium of viable residence and citizenship options worldwide for anyone who is really serious about this topic.” Professor Dr. Dimitry Kochenov, Chair in EU Constitutional and Citizenship Law, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
“This book could be given to a client as an encompassing introduction to the subject, and, indeed, it is an excellent port of call for a practitioner not dealing with these topics on a daily basis.” STEP Journal
“The Global Residence and Citizenship Handbook is the encyclopaedia of residency and citizenship-by-investment programs. It is a most valuable comprehensive reference addressing all questions that may come up when planning residence or citizenship in another country, including the legal, the financial, the personal and the practical.” Ghada Al Altrash, Gulf News, Dubai

Подробнее

This book presents in-depth yet practical information on the most important issues concerning international residence and citizenship planning for private clients.
It is the quintessential guide for global citizens and their advisers, such as law firms, tax consultants, private banks and family offices. At the same time the handbook is also invaluable for business owners, entrepreneurs and investors who are interested in expanding their horizons.
The book covers all important aspects of residence rules, citizenship law, dual citizenship, passports and visa-free travel, real estate and tax planning, and many more internationally relevant topics.
With contributions by Prof. Patrick Weil, Prof. Marshall Langer, Simon Anholt and Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, a foreword by Tonio Fenech MP, former Minister of Finance, Economy and Investment of Malta, and an introduction by Julia Onslow-Cole, Head of Global Immigration at PwC.

Подробнее

This book presents in-depth yet practical information on the most important issues concerning international residence and citizenship planning for private clients. It is the quintessential guide for global citizens and their advisers, such as law firms, tax consultants, private banks and family offices. At the same time the handbook is also invaluable for private individuals and families, business owners, entrepreneurs and investors who are interested in expanding their horizons. The book covers all important aspects of residence rules, citizenship law, dual citizenship, passports and visa-free travel, tax and real-estate planning, and many more internationally relevant topics. With contributions by Prof. Patrick Weil, Prof. Marshall Langer, Simon Anholt and Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, a foreword by Hon. Tonio Fenech, Minister of Finance, Economy and Investment of Malta, and an introduction by Julia Onslow-Cole, Head of Global Immigration at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Christian H. Kälin is a Partner at Henley & Partners in Zurich. He is one of the pioneers and leading specialists in international residence and citizenship planning.

Подробнее