Nine folds make a paper swan / Ruth Gilligan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilligan, Ruth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Ireland--Identity--Fiction.

Jews.

Jews--Ireland--Fiction.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Ireland.

Family life--Fiction.

Immigrants--Fiction.

Women journalists--Fiction.

Jews--Identity--Fiction.

Jews--Fiction.

London (England)--Fiction.

Ireland--History--Fiction.

Local Subjects:

Family life--Fiction.

Immigrants--Fiction.

Women journalists--Fiction.

Jews--Identity--Fiction.

Jews--Fiction.

London (England)--Fiction.

Ireland--History--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Religious fiction.

Physical Description:

336 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2017.

Summary:

"At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from Lithuania in search of a better life in America, only to land on the Emerald Isle instead. In 1958, a mute Jewish boy locked away in a mental institution outside of Dublin forms an unlikely friendship with a man consumed by the story of the love he lost nearly two decades earlier. And in present-day London, an Irish journalist is forced to confront her conflicting notions of identity and family when her Jewish boyfriend asks her to make a true leap of faith. These three arcs, which span generations and intertwine in revelatory ways, come together to tell the haunting story of Ireland's all-but-forgotten Jewish community."--Amazon.com.

ISBN:

9781941040492

1941040497

OCLC:

951925806