Shira Nayman: 3 books

Shira Nayman's riveting and haunting first novel of madness and passion is set in a psychiatric hospital just after World War II. Two years after the end of World War II, a mysterious figure, Bertram Reiner, appears at Shadowbrook, a private asylum whose elegant hallways, vaulted ceilings,...

Bold and deeply affecting, Awake in the Dark is a provocative and haunting work of fiction about who we are and how we are formed by history. These luminous stories portray the contemporary lives of the children of Holocaust victims and perpetrators as they struggle with the legacy of their parents...

World War II haunts the lives and loves of three people, on three continents, in this novel by an author who “writes with wisdom and courage” (Ursula Hegi, author of Stones from the River).   Oscar is a mysterious Englishman who presides over Ellis Park, a sprawling mansion on Long Island’s...