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The world that we knew : a novel / Alice Hoffman.
"From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a beautiful story of one Jewish child refugee's flight to safety in Nazi German and her mother's impossible decision to set her free"-- Provided by publisher.
In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi, but it’s his daughter, Ettie, who offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their fortunes linked. Lea and Ava travel from Paris, where Lea meets her soulmate, to a convent in western France known for its silver roses; from a school in a mountaintop village where three thousand Jews were saved. Meanwhile, Ettie is in hiding, waiting to become the fighter she’s destined to be. What does it mean to lose your mother? How much can one person sacrifice for love? In a world where evil can be found at every turn, we meet remarkable characters that take us on a stunning journey of loss and resistance, the fantastical and the mortal, in a place where all roads lead past the Angel of Death and love is never ending.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501137570
- Physical Description: 372 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Shuster, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Subject: | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Fiction. Jews > German > Berlin > Fiction. Jews > France > Paris > Fiction. Jewish children > Fiction. Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Golem > Fiction. Survival > Fiction. Paris (France) > History > 1940-1944 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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| Prince Rupert Library | Hoff (Text) | 33294002059574 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Public Library | FIC HOF (Text) | 35146002162030 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Chetwynd Public Library | FIC HOF (Text) | 35222001032985 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Creston Public Library | FIC HOF (Text) | 35140100057705 | Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-03 |
| Elkford Public Library | FC HOF (Text) | 35170000436766 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fernie Heritage Library | FIC HOF (Text) | 35136000564857 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort Nelson Public Library | FIC HOF (Text) | 35246000996155 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort St. James Public Library | HOF (Text) | 35196001025639 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Gibsons Public Library | FIC HOFF (Text) | 30886001070222 | Adult Fiction Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Invermere Public Library | FIC HOF (Text) | IPL056585 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
