Ellis Island, and Other Stories

Ellis Island

and Other Stories

Mark Helprin

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

A novella and ten stories cover an extensive geographical range, from the German Alps to the Indian Ocean, the title novella pertaining to an immigrant whose over-active imagination gets him in and out of trouble.

"It's genius. . . . Ellis Island ascends to the peak of literary achievement." —The Boston Globe
"Such an ambitious reach is almost unheard of in our short fiction." —The New York Times Book Review
"Constant brilliance . . . Rarely less than breathtaking . . . every single story sings with purity, vibrates with light." —The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

About the Author

Mark Helprin is the acclaimed author of Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, The Oceans and the Stars, Freddy and Fredericka, The Pacific, Ellis Island, Memoir from Antproof Case, and numerous other works. His novels are read around the world, translated into over twenty languages.

You may also like