Until the Dawn's Light

✍ Scribed by Aharon Appelfeld

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Schocken Books
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 118 KB
• Edition: 1st American ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0805243003

✦ Synopsis

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• • • NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER (2012)

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From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer ("One of the best novelists alive" --Irving Howe): a Jewish woman marries a gentile laborer in turn-of-the-century Austria, with disastrous results.

A high school honor student bound for university and a career as a mathematician, Blanca lives with her parents in a small town in Austria in the early years of the twentieth century. At school one day she meets Adolf, who comes from a family of peasant laborers. Tall and sturdy, plainspoken and uncomplicated, Adolf is unlike anyone Blanca has ever met. And Adolf is awestruck by beautiful, brilliant Blanca--even though she is Jewish. When Blanca is asked by school administrators to tutor Adolf, the inevitable happens: they fall in love. And when Adolf asks her to marry him, Blanca abandons her plans to attend university, converts to Christianity, and leaves her family, her friends, and her...