Books by Alain Gerber and Complete Book Reviews

The Slave Trail
The Slave Trail
Alain Gerber, Author Mercury House $18.95 (143p) ISBN 978-0-916515-51-5
The romantic image of the tropics as a paradise where life is simpler and better receives a death-blow in this short, lyrical, symbolic adventure tale. Clement Calderanz, haughty French writer short on inpsiration but long on ego, follows an old...
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Rumor of an Elephant
Rumor of an Elephant
Alain Gerber, Author Mercury House $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-916515-19-5
Young Vimlo Naftali lives with his family in an unspecified ethnic section of an unnamed city in an unnamed Eastern European country. Put in charge of a mysteriously symbolic hawthorn tree planted in their meager back yard, Vimlo lies when the tree...
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Short Happy Life
Short Happy Life
Alain Gerber, Author, Jeremy Leggatt, Translator Mercury House $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-916515-35-5
In this intelligent, odd French novel, accounting clerk Ghichka Piktopek, a latter-day Job, befriends Karl, a monkey, and together they make a fateful, picaresque journey through Europe in the shadow of Nazism. Along the way, they encounter two...
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