The world that we knew / Alice Hoffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, Alice, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.

Children of rabbis.

Golem.

Jewish children.

Jews.

France--Paris.

Jews--France--Paris--Fiction.

Jewish children--Fiction.

Golem--Fiction.

Children of rabbis--Fiction.

Paris (France)--History--1940-1944--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

372 pages : map ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019.

Summary:

"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.

Berlin. Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. Ettie, the daughter of a renowned rabbi, 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. In Paris Lea meets her soulmate. From there she travels to a convent in western France known for its silver roses; then 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. -- adapted from jacket

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-372).

National Jewish Book Awards - Book Club Award, Winner, 2019

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781501137570

1501137573

9781501137587

1501137581

OCLC:

1081369055