Until the Dawn's Light
โ 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
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ 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...
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