We Were Strangers Once - A Novel
Verlag | Grand Central Publishing |
Auflage | 2018 |
Seiten | 336 |
Format | 15,9 x 23,5 x 2,5 cm |
Gewicht | 544 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 1455571431 |
EAN | 9781455571437 |
Bestell-Nr | 45557143UA |
For readers of Colm Toibin's Brooklyn and Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, an exquisitely moving novel about a circle of German Jewish immigrants who, on the eve of World War II, are shoved across the sea with very little left to sustain them except each other.
Klappentext:
§On the eve of World War II, one German Jewish family is forced to emigrate and face a new future in America, one fraught with degradations big and small, which each person suffers and conquers in a unique way.
Egon Schneider, a thriving ophthalmologist and ladies' man in Frankfurt, is reduced to being "The Cheese Man" at a local grocery in Washington Heights; Catrina Harty, a vivacious daughter of dirt-poor Irish immigrants, has fought her way to a comfortable if unhappy spinsterhood; and Meyer Leavitt, Egon's terminally acerbic best friend, is a former children's book author turned sandwich-board salesman turned newspaper columnist.
Together they suffer the wonders and indignities of this strange new world--and each other--in the hopes of creating a permanent home for "The Lucky Ones."
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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} "A moving story of loss, longing, and perseverance."-A Best New September Release, Real Simple